The Boston Globe

Fireworks designer Matt Shea orchestrates the skies over the Boston Pops July Fourth celebration

Matt Shea has photos of himself at age 9 during a bicentennial celebration in 1976, wearing a tricorn hat. “Fifty years ago, a fireworks company would visit the fire department. They shot the ...
AOL

Mom warns parents after July Fourth fireworks explode on 7-year-old daughter

In 2019, the Cox family Fourth of July celebration was underway when Harlee, then 7, lay down beside her mom, Kayla Cox, to watch partygoers set off fireworks from the road below. When someone lit a ...
The Gazette

Here’s how fireworks work on the Fourth of July

J&M Displays employee Callie Williams works on wiring fireworks for the Freedom Festival fireworks on the Second Avenue bridge in Cedar Rapids on Thursday. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Buy Photo CEDAR ...
9NEWS

Builders of World Record firework said they found success in lessons learned from failure

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — “We tried last year, and we failed,” said Tim Borden, project manager at Steamboat Fireworks and one of a four-man team behind the firework that set a world record in ...
NBC Chicago

Mom warns parents after July Fourth fireworks explodes on 7-year-old daughter

In 2019, the Cox family Fourth of July celebration was underway when Harlee, then 7, lay down beside her mom, Kayla Cox, to watch partygoers set off fireworks from the road below. When someone lit a ...