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As much as that blast was serious, you've never seen a true fireworks plant go up. It makes Bahgdad look like a Christmas tree.
Pyro companies work with some seriously weird shit. Titanium, Chromium, Sulfur, etc. to attain the colors in the fireworks.
A 2" shell is equivalent to a stick of TNT.
One day at Austin's I was loading mortar tubes with 6" shells. I was lowering a shell into the tube and the fucking fuse broke. It was like something out of "the Matrix" - time stopped because everyone knew what happened. We all watched as this 6" ball of fury dropped to the ground and we all knew if it went off we were dead dead dead. The warehouse was stocked to the ceilings with Class A explosives.
Luckily it just bounced and I caught it. My life did flash before my eyes though. I didn't even get out "SHIT!". The fuse snapped and I watched in slow motion as this minister of death dropped to the concrete floor.
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