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From: ron@brl-vgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: Fireworks Warning
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Date: Fri, 29-Jun-84 22:50:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 29 22:50:36 1984
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As a fireman, I have had chance to have seen a presentation by the Police
Bomb squad complete with pictures that is enough for me to be safe.  I have
heard of two Professional pyrotechnic incidents.  Last Forth of July some
friends of mine were on the roof a building overlooking the area where they
were launching a display.  At one point the operator dropped his flare and
dove at a convenient hole just before one of those really neat starburst
things went off at ground level.  Hemispherical, because of the location of
the ground.  The other was that the bomb squad was disposing of two commercial
pyrotechnic items.  These were the ones that make a lot of noise by throwing
quarter sticks of dynamite out of them.  Well, they don't trust anything and
set them very remotely.  The first one went off just fine, but the second one
also went off at ground level, chucking dynamite all over the place.

-Ron