World News | Metro News: It may have come a little early for Bonfire Night, but road cops and drivers were treated to a spectacular fireworks display following a car crash in Canada.
At around 10pm last Thursday, a lorry accidentally bumped into a trailer that was being towed by a pick-up truck on the Trans-Canada Highway east of Vancouver.
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This must have been a wild event to catch in person. I almost wish I was there to see it, but without putting myself in danger of getting hurt. I wonder what it was like to be one of the cops driving up to the scene. I mean, as one of the witnesses said, it is not everyday that you get to see a light show like that. The pictures of the scene look incredible. I have never seen a firework show that has looked like that. It is probably because these fireworks were mostly shot up very quickly after each other, so there are a lot more going on at once in the sky. Also, I am pretty sure I have never seen a $100,000 firework show before. I wonder how many fireworks that includes. I also had no idea that a similar situation had occurred multiple times before. Now, I feel the need to look-up the Oban display of 2011 and the one in San Diego California that occurred a year later. These all seem like interesting stories.
I would absolutely love to have watched this, and am so sorry for whatever distributor was expecting this shipment. It just goes to show how you need to take every possible safety precaution when transporting things, and for an industry like theater, it's especially important when you have to meet critical deadlines. At my local community theater, the shop was expecting a shipment of lumber, but the storage area where the wood was kept burned down; fire is no joke. The article says it was a slow burn to set off all the fireworks, and that the show lasted for more than an hour. I wonder if the fire department was able to put it out with water, or if the chemicals used in fireworks require some chemical flame retardant. I know you should never put water on a grease fire, and so I wonder what's the procedure for both mitigation and when an accident eventually does happen, what's the protocol for rescue workers.
This would’ve been such a sight to see in person, although it is indeed very dangerous for the people involved and the people close by. I never really understood how fireworks work, but I would assume that they are very difficult to put out, and that they just had to let the fireworks keep going until there weren’t any left. That much money lost to an accident would have been such a difficult process to all parties involved, the shipping, and the sending and receiver, and even though I don’t know that this shipment of fireworks would have been used for, but whatever it was planned for, those plans could only have gone down the drain. I feel like there are accidents that could have been prevented by you yourself being more careful and taking more precautions, but when it involves other people, it’s really difficult for those accidents to be prevented.
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