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Speaker 1 (00:00):
I have been hitting this the last couple of days,
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and we'll continue to do that here on ninety seven
point one The Eagle. That is, If you want to
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need your help. You can help again, that's community Foundation
dot net. But right now it's time for this.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
The thing's big.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Always tons of July fourth fireworks stories and it was
a long weekend. When July fourth is on a Friday,
that means you get a double or sometimes triple dose
of fireworks happening. Did you guys experience any of that locally?
All the fireworks? Yeah, yeah, many problems they think. Wake
you up at three thirty am? There was fireworks. This
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happens in my neighborhood quite a bit. People put on
their own firework show and it's extensive.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Is that right?
Speaker 5 (00:55):
Like, I'm like, wow, those are industrial like small towns
fireworks going off like in and I'm wondering.
Speaker 3 (01:03):
If they're like the permit.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
I doubt it.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
We need to find out.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I heard a story.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
I'm not going to say where it is, but I
heard a story from some friends that were like in
their community. They have it down to a science to
where they fire them off everything in three minutes, come
in with a cleaning crew and get it cleaned up
before any officers show up.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Okay, I have stories of not me, but I'll say
friends of mine who pulled off the elaborate prank front
of the police station of lighting off a bunch of
black cats while the police were responding to the artillery
shell fireworks that were happening on the other side of town.
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I keep in mind the other side of town. That's
about three minutes. They got caught and had to, you know,
clean it all up and do a little community service.
You see, Mike bow and Luke I figure, thank you.
Kind of grew up as a little country outlaw.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
You know.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
It wasn't so much me, but I saw a lot
of other people misbehaving and I just ran into the house.
Pick on the mountain. But you never meant no harm. No,
but he've been in trouble with the law since the
days born.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Let's go too. Let's go to uh Massachusetts first.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
And I hate to say this, when we have these
fireworks stories, not all of these have a happy ending,
but maybe don't do the illegal fireworks show.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Let's go to Massachusetts.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
A seventy year old man has died in what authorities
were calling a fireworks accident at a beach and Wareham
or Mary Marcos has more.
Speaker 6 (02:28):
Everybody down here has been lighting off fireworks themselves for
over twenty years. Neighbors say Robert spat Nullo has been
setting off fireworks in Wareham as part of an unofficial
neighborhood competition for years. They're legal in this state for
a reason.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
They are inherently dangerous, and so that's that's the reason
they don't let everybody have them.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
We do know that they're illegal, but it's it's it's
okay ish on on the fourth of July or a
couple of days before.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Otherwise, Okay, we got some. It's okay. Is it's okay.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
It's only partially illegal during this time.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
This unofficial competition though, and what we're going to do,
we don't have this competition.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
We have to find out. It's like a horrible idea. Yeah,
it gets shut down pretty quick.
Speaker 6 (03:15):
The Bomouth County District Attorney says the seventy year old
was hit in the face with a fireworks shortly after
nine o'clock Friday night.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
We shouldn't hold it against anybody.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
It was an accident, and accidents happened, and so a
tragedy collapse. That's what the commissioner of the Unofficial Firework
Competition would say. We shouldn't really hold this against anyone.
This is just what happens in this competition.
Speaker 2 (03:35):
No, it's illegal, you shouldn't be doing it.
Speaker 6 (03:37):
Right, as you can see, fireworks continue to go off
in the neighborhood. Meanwhile, the chief Medical Examiner is still
looking into the official cause of death and the incident
is still under investigation. Reporting in Wareham, Mary Marco, NBC ten, Boston.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
We love fireworks as a nation.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Because the guy dies, we know it's illegal, and she's
reporting and there's a butet of.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Fireworks going on and I don't know what the how
much the drone shows cost, but we should make the transition.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Yeah, drones are since they're far superior.
Speaker 7 (04:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
I saw one with like a dragon going over some
town and it was incredible. To get enough of them
to make the dragon look cool. You have to buy
a bunch of drones, and one drone is like a
good what five hundred bucks are we talking about we're
talking about for these artillery shows.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
And for these kind of drones, it's I gotta be able,
computer programmed and have certain kind of lights and all
that sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Well, fireworks starting fires, killing people, right, and they only.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
Do the same thing every time?
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Right?
Speaker 8 (04:37):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (04:37):
Interesting sidebar.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Fireworks kind of play part of the narrative arc of
Staten Island Summer.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I've had enough. Okay, A drone show. A drone show
can vary wildly on how much it costs widely, but
generally arranges from twenty grand to two hundred grand or more.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I ain't got that money. I got firework money.
Speaker 2 (04:59):
But how much is a fireworks show costs? Twenty grand
to two hundreds it's the same.
Speaker 4 (05:03):
Are we doing it officially or are we doing an
unofficial competition? No illgal area, because I can get that done.
Speaker 5 (05:10):
Yeah, it's not gonna do anything for the small people
that are going rogue.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Okay they're called little people, but doing.
Speaker 5 (05:16):
Like Okay, fireworks show could run anywhere from five grand
to one hundred grand.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
Have you guys ever been to a dwarf firework show?
Speaker 5 (05:24):
I mean, I bet the Boomtown and Addison was two
hundred and fifty grand, oh, two hundred and fifty million, dude. Yeah,
so you could put on a drone show for roughly
the same price, and I think it would be far superior.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
But again, all these accidents are never hardly any of
these happened at the big events. These all happen just yeah,
you know, right.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
And you know what, none of these places properly licensed
the Bruce Springsteen League, Greenwood right, John Cooper Mellencamp songs.
And do you see every year you see people blow
their fingers off?
Speaker 3 (05:52):
What about in this case, let's go to North Carolina.
Speaker 9 (05:54):
As fireworks illuminated the night sky for the Fourth of
July holiday, there was something else keeping people up at night.
Speaker 7 (06:01):
There was a lot of gun fire going on outside,
but fireworks as well. As soon as it became dark outside.
Speaker 9 (06:07):
Lesson Allons tells me on the eve of the holiday,
things got pretty rowdy near her home on Plumb Street.
Speaker 7 (06:13):
I didn't think anything of it until the next morning
when I woke up. On the fourth my son, my
four year old, came into my room and said, Mommy,
what is this?
Speaker 8 (06:21):
And in his hand was a.
Speaker 9 (06:22):
Bullet, A bullet from gunfire aimed in the air. Pierced
the roof of her son's bedroom as he slept a
few feet away.
Speaker 7 (06:30):
He said, Mommy, they were doing fireworks in my room.
He thought it was fireworks and it was an actual
bullet that came through his ceiling.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
The bullets do land, Yeah, that happens. People fought just
shooting guns in the air. Those bullets come down. They
don't go into the atmosphere and didn't just fly off
into the sun.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
They do come down.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Let's get some West Coast a little bit of love.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Hair's go to California now at eleven homeowners sharing their
shot tonight over an illegal fireworks explosion in Percoima.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
As we get a new look at the danger that night.
Speaker 8 (06:59):
Tonight, the family tells us their home was completely destroyed
the devastating fireworks explosion, taking the life of one man
and destroying multiple homes.
Speaker 9 (07:07):
Thursday Night, Avenue stu's reporter ten Pulliam joins us line
from Pakoma, where he met with one of those families.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Ten.
Speaker 8 (07:13):
Yeah, this neighborhood in Pacuoma is traumatized at the illegal
fireworks set it on fire, and tonight we are getting
a first look inside one of the homes that was
completely destroyed. Brian Garcia taking us inside what used to
be his home, including his mother's patio, garden and sanctuary
for her thirteen birds. Every inch of the family's home
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was ravaged. When they say their neighbors illegal fireworks went
off next door.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
You get the point. Two houses destroyed by fireworks. We
also have a huge fire in California.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Right to know more about her thirteen birds.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Yeah, there was not more a big bird follow up,
but I can tell you it doesn't sound like the
birds made it out of the houselo. I mean, two
people lost their home because a guy just had five
hundred dollars worth of fireworks in his closet in a
box and they somehow caught fire. There's a big fire
and Laguna Beach right now, though, and there's like, yeah,
well fireworks caused this?
Speaker 2 (08:05):
Are you serious?
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (08:07):
Is this about the time It was last year that
those fires were going crazy?
Speaker 3 (08:10):
No, that was that was wintertime.
Speaker 2 (08:13):
It just feels like a year round in California.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
Man firework explosion on a boat in New York killed
one and injured another. Oh oh, okay. A tent, a
fireworks tent in Michigan caught fire. There was also a
story though in Cedar Rapids, where the people are pissed
that the Cedar Rapids Freedom Festival fireworks display was disappointing.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
It just wasn't good enough. Are they mean it wasn't
good enough?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
I want my America back.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
The Freedom Festival said they were promised the fireworks show
would be impressive. However, there were delays in a pause
during the show. I paid for this. I need a
good show. You can't even count on a good fireworks
show anymore.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Where do you pay for fire like?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
There are companies that go do like I know, but
I'm just.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
Saying, like your average person sitting around didn't pay to
look up? Right, Have you guys ever been to a
fireworks show that you paid for?
Speaker 3 (09:12):
No? No, like he put on.
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Yeah, you go to a you know, a soccer stadium
and look up or what you know?
Speaker 3 (09:18):
It's like, yeah, no one ever really came to my
firework shows.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
They always noticed that, Like people would leave and go
to the other one on the other side of the lake,
and like maybe I had too much interpretive dance.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Look up, isn't it back down? Look at her.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
Move to the east side before my son went and
you know, hung out with friends. On July fourth, my
wife's sent a video she saw on TikTok where a
guy was kind of in his early twenties was saying, hey,
don't fire these things off yourself. And he's got a
lobster claw for a hand now because he shot his
hand off.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You don't want to look like this.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Well, oh man, Well that's a pretty good show.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Yeah, that's pretty good.
Speaker 3 (10:03):
It's pretty good show.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That was good. That's good. Drop.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
We do want to remind everyone, and we will continue
to do so all week long. If you would like
to donate to the Kerr County flood Relief Fund, go
to Community Foundation dot net again, that's Community Foundation dot net.
All right, tomorrow is gonna be big. It's hump Day.
We always do something special on hump Day. I'll never
forget the time kt looked the guy that had a
lobster hand dead in his eye and on the fourth
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of July he said to him, I think.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I would say never change, you know, but also change.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Well, that guy was stuck with his situation. Christina is
going to stick around and play some tunes right here
on the eagle.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
There you going, Well, I'm gonna get my sock bag dude,
A great summer. That's your hands,