It had been thunderstorming and tornado warning through the day, so I didn't expect fireworks, but when they went off about four blocks from me, I sure felt it! I went out and stood on the sidewalk and watched and smelled them for a while and some neighbors came out, too. If we were more neighborly, we'd plan to block part of the street for barbeque and fireworks watching.
We had two sets of serious injuries locally. You may have already heard of the one on the Mall -- a shell that wasn't used went off and burned one of the fireworks people. The other was in Fairfax County and a shell went into the crowd. It critically burned two people. Turned out the same company with the same "cake" operated in other Fairfax County sites and also had shells go off sideways, but not into people. The fire marshalls said the cakes themselves looked good, but they couldn't look inside, and the cakes all came from the same Chinese company. There was an article in the WashPost about it today.
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Date: 2007-07-06 07:14 pm (UTC)We had two sets of serious injuries locally. You may have already heard of the one on the Mall -- a shell that wasn't used went off and burned one of the fireworks people. The other was in Fairfax County and a shell went into the crowd. It critically burned two people. Turned out the same company with the same "cake" operated in other Fairfax County sites and also had shells go off sideways, but not into people. The fire marshalls said the cakes themselves looked good, but they couldn't look inside, and the cakes all came from the same Chinese company. There was an article in the WashPost about it today.