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We were lighting off 3" mortars and we had a guy (brothers friend) put 2 3" mortars into 1 tube like an idiot, the bottom morter went off before the top one, it blew the bottom out of the tube, and point it back towards me when the top mortar shout out and exploded 2 feet from me on the ground. Everyone watching only saw a flash of light and me jumping, away from it.
Lucikly I didn't get hurt, but that was the last firework that guy was asked to light off.
I have also heard about about a family friend (i wasn't there) who like an idiot stuck his face over the tube while lighting a 3" mortar and the wick burned really fast and shot out and hit him in the forehead and killed him.
Fireworks can be dangerous thats for sure, every year we put on a display, but we started moving away from mortars and using the bigger cakes to make things easier and have a nicer display.
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