Happy 4th of July to all FRLians!

-- Gayla (gaylasd@hotmail.com), July 04, 2000

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Hope this works! :-)

-- Gayla (gaylasd@hotmail.com), July 04, 2000.

Wonderful.

Thank you.

-- Pam (jpjgood@penn.com), July 04, 2000.

Wooo Hooo Gayla! Excellent! Thanks!

Something went wrong with the fireworks show we saw tonight..the grand finale ended up shooting off too low, sending burning embers showering down on all the boats in the bay. As we were walking home, we could see two fires going...one on the fireworks barge, and one on one of the nearest boats. Pretty scary ending!! Just hope no one got hurt...but holy cow, what a show they put on previous to the mishap...it was 1/2 hour long! We ooohed and ahhhed ourselves silly! :-) Happy Fourth EVERYONE!

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 04, 2000.

Happy 4th of July to all!!!

(((Gayla))) :-)

We had a wonderful 4th, although I had to work. Greybear's friend and his boy came over with ALOT of fireworks, and the boys had a great time. I got home well after dark, and they had kept a camp fire going and we had hot dogs as a late snack.

We didn't burn the house down (apparently there where some horizontal fireworks before I got home), start a grass fire, loose any fingers, or run out of mosquitoe repealent, so a good time was had by all.

-- LillyBear (homesteader145@yahoo.com), July 05, 2000.

Just to add to my story if anyone is interested...someone *did* get hurt in that fireworks mishap..6ut he's okay now. :-)

BEACHWOOD -- The borough's fire official is recovering after an errant firework sent him sprawling Tuesday night but otherwise left him unharmed.

As part of the borough's Fourth of July celebration, Joseph Vivenzio was required to be on the barge in the Toms River from which the fireworks were launched.

"Something went wrong with one of them," Vivenzio said. "One of them misfired, and it set off a whole bunch of other ones. I ended up getting hit in the chest. I went backwards. It hit me in the left side of the chest."

Yesterday afternoon, Vivenzio said he's still coming to grips with what happened Tuesday night.

"I'm all right," he said. "I'm just a little wishy-washy. It's starting to set in."

But, he said, he's grateful to the first aid and volunteer crews who made sure he was OK, took him off the barge into their boats, took him to shore and put him into an ambulance.

Doctors at Community Medical Center, Toms River, examined him and discharged him Tuesday night after he received a clean bill of health, he said.

The show itself cost $62,000, according to Mayor William T. Hornidge.

The accident on the barge caused the show to end after only about 25 minutes. The remaining 20 minutes worth of fireworks finally were shot off near midnight. But by then the viewers, estimated at 60,000 by Pine Beach police, were gone.

(I thought that was the whole show...1/2 hour of fireworks is wonderfull enough...who knew there was another 20 minutes of it to go? -k) Thats a 6it ecstravagent anyhow..$62k worth of fireworks?

-- kritter (kritter@adelphia.net), July 06, 2000.

(((((Lilly))))) Nice to hear from you! How are you? Enjoying the Texas heat? :-) Glad to hear nothing burned down, sounds like the show Kritter watched was wild too!

-- Gayla (privacy@please.com), July 06, 2000.