Accident Mars Fireworks Display

Tonight we went to the annual fireworks display held at River City Park. The show was preceded by a concert of local talent. There was a southern gospel quartet singing songs both patriotic and religious. After the musical presentation, the fireworks started. The rockets would go "Whoosh," ascend up a hundred feet or so, and then go "Boom," showering the sky with colored lights. The show had gone on for 10 minutes or so, when one of the rockets did not go "Whoosh," but it did go "Boom." There had been a ground level premature explosion of one of the rockets. For the next ten minutes there was silence.

Suddenly a voice comes over the PA system saying there had been an accident, urging the crowd not to block the roadway leading in to the park. Soon a fire truck and an ambulance appear and head toward the area where the fireworks had been set off. The voice returns on the PA saying there would be a delay of about seven or eight minutes and then the fireworks would resume. We waited for at least a half hour with nothing happening, except the ambulance left. We walked back to where we had parked the car, got in, and drove to Nick's house. We gave Ayla back to her parents. Nick and Jen had been with us at the park, but they left a little while before we did.

I guess I will learn tomorrow the fate of the worker setting off the fireworks.