South Carolina Gets Unplanned Show as Fireworks Store Goes Up in Flames
This year, one of the country’s biggest, most colorful 4th of July fireworks displays didn’t even draw a large crowd. Then again, no one was expecting it to happen. A…
YORK, ENGLAND – AUGUST 19: A spectacular laser and firework finale brings to an end the annual Castle Howard Proms Spectacular concert held on the grounds of the Castle Howard estate on August 19, 2017 in York, England. The outdoor picnic concert celebrated the best of British with a rousing medley of traditional orchestral anthems from the London Gala Orchestra conducted by Stephen Ellery and special guest performances from Brit award winners Blake and soprano Joanne Forest. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images)
Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesThis year, one of the country's biggest, most colorful 4th of July fireworks displays didn't even draw a large crowd. Then again, no one was expecting it to happen.
A fire at Davey Jones' Fireworks and the House of Fireworks -- adjoining stores in Fort Mill, South Carolina -- kept firefighters on their toes Thursday morning as they had to dodge exploding shells and speeding rockets while extinguishing the blaze. Instead of a dark gray or black plume of smoke that's normally associated with structure fires, the early morning blaze filled the sky with dazzling showers of colors, video reveals.
As big a spectacle as it was, the fire never even made it inside the stores. The Fort Mill Fire Department reports the blaze was contained to an outside storage container filled with fireworks. They were able to get it under control within 45 minutes, a rep says.
