20 minute fireworks show in 30 seconds

[PyroAce]

Do people remember this happening a couple years ago!? The story is that the entire show was electronically fired but it was wired wrong, so instead of different effects going off progressively the entire display was ignited at once! How could this be possible though if you have it wired to the control board? Wouldn't you have to manually press buttons? Sabotage possibly?

 

Watch "20 minute fireworks show in 30 seconds" on WackyView

http://wackyview.com/uploads/player_thumbs/CBhhnvb4Bo4whCnASWKw.jpg

[starxplor]

Is that the San Diego one? If so, I had "heard" that it was supposed to have a 'fire all' type command at the end in case anything didn't fire during the show, but it somehow got put at the beginning of the script.

[PyroAce]

Is that the San Diego one? If so, I had "heard" that it was supposed to have a 'fire all' type command at the end in case anything didn't fire during the show, but it somehow got put at the beginning of the script.

Yeh that's the one! A "fire all command" fail safe sounds insane, but it does make sense that this was triggered wrongly, I almost wish I was there just to see and hear the whole show going off simultaneously!

I was always suspicious that they had a "mole" working in their crew. If you think about it, it wouldn't be hard to get hired to work for a rival Pyrotechnic company, help setup and while the other crew are distracted do a bit of tampering....

[starxplor]

The people I know who are willing to put in the hard work of working on shows are not likely to purposely do something so reckless as this. Just imagining how many people could have been hurt by unexpected stuff going off makes me shiver.

[August]

Had another instant show at PGI this year. Lighting hit the electronic ignition line. I heard it in my hotel room and thought it was some supper intense lightning.

[starxplor]

I wonder if lightning rods will become common at shows...