San Diego fireworks show blows up all at once

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The “Big Bay Boom” fireworks show at the Port of San Diego went bust in a spectacular way Wednesday, as the entire cache of explosives went off at once, according to reports.
The Northridge-Chatsworth Patch reported:

A massive fusillade of bright rocketry lit up North Island and the downtown area just before 9 p.m.
YouTube video from the scene showed a gigantic 28-second blast, with rockets and bombs bursting in a random pattern. Then, nothing.
… Coast Guard officials said it appeared that entire battery of explosives on three of the four barges was launched at the same time, possibly due to an electronic malfunction.

The Los Angeles Times reported that an investigation is under way:

In a statement issued before midnight, the port said that just before the fireworks all exploded, technicians sent a signal “to the barges that would set the timing for the rest of the show after the introduction.”
Garden State Fireworks, the firm producing the show, “will be working throughout the night to determine what technical problem caused the entire show to be launched in about 15 seconds. We apologize for the brevity of the show and the technical difficulties,” according to a statement posted on www.bigbayboom.com.

http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2012/07/05/san-diego-fireworks-show-blows-up-all-at-once/

[Swede]

1. Hey,what does this button do?

[aquart]

2. Oh no!

[LiberalEsto]

5. Get the Viagra

another case of Premature Detonation

[Nuclear Unicorn]

9. I've heard this story before

You're promised fireworks only to have it over in a few seconds. Then you're just there as they spend the next half hour trying to figure out what to do or say but it just ends with an awkward, "It's never happened before."

[Historic NY]

3. Oops....

lucky its was on barges

[rrneck]

4. They hired these guys to run it...

[KansDem]

6. Let's see...how does that go again? Oh, yeah...!

...And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air...

Happy to read there weren't any injuries. Except maybe some reputations...

[PoliticAverse]

7. 'before the fireworks all exploded, technicians sent a signal

to the barges that would set the timing for the rest of the show after the introduction.” '

I suspect someone made a typo.

[monmouth]

8. Garden State = New Jersey...OOOOOOOOOOhhhhhhh Noooooooo..n/t