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| The Starlight Theater this evening 070413 |
I met a fiddle player and a violin player at the gathering!
When the hour of 9pm arrived, Raoul and I decided to head on over to the Terlingua Ghost town to watch the fireworks. As we were approaching the ghost town from a fair distance on FM 170 we could see some thick smoke. They must have started the fireworks without us. We heard that the kids fireworks were going to begin first, such as sparklers etc. We drove closer and as we topped another rise in the road we could plainly see two humongous bonfires. It became dark really fast so we parked a few hundred yards from the Starlight parking lot since there appeared to be alot of vehicles moving around also looking for parking. As soon as we opened the truck doors we could tell that something was not right with the crowd. There were too many excited people and they weren't wearing the normal, "shock and awe" expression one usually sees at 4th of July pyrotechnic shows. There were shouts of fear and shock.
....and weeeeeellll. That's about as far as the 4th of July celebration got.
It seems, from speaking with other people that we knew, the fireworks, well, got out of hand, to put it lightly. From what I can understand, A spark jumped into the wrong box. There wasn't enough time to get the box away from the rest of the fireworks so they did the next best thing...they ran. One witness said that he was standing around the box when it happened and then he said, 'that can't be good' and then ran. As he was running, the fireworks were speeding past him in a flurry.
Quite a few people were hit with hot sparks but I don't think that anyone was seriously injured...as far as I know. By this point Raoul and I just joined the crowd on the Porch of the Starlight Theater after getting a refreshing beverage, Me: A margarita of course, Raoul: some sort of beer in a bottle.
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| Terlingua Fire and EMS on the job the parking lot of the Starlight Theater and Trading Post |
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| Terlingua Fire and EMS giving us some good fodder for the next few weeks. |
I never expected my 4th to be this exciting. Why can't we have something like this on a monthly basis? Just askin'.
Have a great day!!!
Remember, The world is what we make it.
Charlton
2 comments:
My goodness, bet that will be a 4th of July celebration to remember...and not in a good way.
Was there any damage, did anyone get burned? Hope everyone is ok.
A margarita sounds very refreshing specially sitting at the porch. Of course a beer sounds good too :D
holy crap..glad no one got hurt..we had our 4th on the 29th and it was spectacular..we had the Air Force band playing patriotic music during the fire works.really cool.
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