Jul 3, 2008 7:02 am US/Eastern
16,000 Pounds Of Fireworks Ready For Boston Show
BOSTON (WBZ) ―
On a series of three barges in the Charles River, 16,000 pounds of fireworks are being readied for Friday night's display over the Boston skyline.
More than 15,000 shells and other fireworks devices were imported from around the world -Portugal, Spain, China, Japan and Italy - ready to shoot as high as 1,500 feet above the Charles.
A team of nine pyrotechnic experts are putting on this year's display. Display designer Eric Tucker says the Boston show gets bigger and better every year.
Tucker tells WBZ that this year the crew is adding more pastel colors to the display, or example, peach and grass green, which they've never used before. As always, the entire show is carefully choreographed to a musical soundtrack. Each fireworks shell is wired to a main computer and is ignited by that computer in time with the music.
How do they keep all those shells dry with all the drenching rain we've had? Sand on top of each cap.
The fireworks are scheduled to launch at 10:30 p.m. Friday and last about 25 minutes. You can watch them live on WBZ-TV or wbztv.com.
WBZ-TV will also broadcast all the festivities from the Hatch Shell, including the Pops concert and Rascal Flatts' performance, live beginning at 7 p.m.
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