Needless to say this past weekend Week was a busy one. Last Tuesday, The Braves were home against the Phillies, so I was down there for the strike out pyro. Thursday (7/2) we did a Friday night fireworks show as well as the normal game stuff. The show on Thursday was twelve and a half minutes long, almost double the normal length of the Friday Night Fireworks. Its not a bad thing, it just meant a little more work on the setup.

Friday was an off day, so we spent it at the pool, did dinner at Sonic (nothing better then a foot long chili cheese coney!) and caught the Kennesaw Fireworks display from the Bruster’s Ice Cream Parking lot. It was a good location as we weren’t looking directly up like we would have been if we had been at the depot.

Saturday morning saw me up at 6:30am to pick Eric up and head out to the Melrose Pyro Magazine in Aragon, Ga. (just north of Rockmart) so we could pick up our equipment truck. We got the truck and headed to the First United Methodist Church in Marietta to meet the fire marshal and start setting up. We probably started putting the racks together around 11:30am.

Unfortunately for us, the product (fireworks) were not allowed on site until 2pm, so I had to send the delivery truck away for an hour or so. We managed to get the product on site a little earlier when the Marietta Fire Department sent over a truck so we could load the shells.

The show consisted of over 350 cues, made up of 3″ timer chains, 4″ shells and timer chains and 5″ shells. The finale was approximately 15 cues of a box item (280 shots in 29 seconds), titanium salute chains, 3″ finale chains (which burn faster than the regular timer chains) and 14 five inch shells which we wired in with our finale chains.

We were setup and ready by 9pm (considering we lost one of our guys on an equipment run for 3 hours, that’s not bad) and when the show started at 9:30pm (on the nose) the first flip sent up an amazing shot of a Red, a white and a blue five inch shell (three shells) just after Ed Harris told Houston that we were go for main engine launch.

The show was approximately 22 minutes long and ended just after the music (its hard to get timing just right) and was probably better then anyone could have hoped for. The nice thing about this fourth of July was that the rain stayed away until Sunday. First time thats happened…

Below are some links to some videos on YouTube of the show…

• 8 minutes long
• 2:30 minutes long
• 4 minutes long

The photo of the Blue and Gold Fire works was taken by Dennis Esler Visit his site for more from the Marietta Square show and to purchase prints

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