Z-cake frenzy!

PyroU member shrapnel posted this in his gallery, but it was too cool not to spread around a little bit. After shooting a couple Night Vision at the last WA group shoot I became a big fan of the color and overall quality of this 200g z-cake and used it with some 200g cakes breaking above. Shrapnel has done a bit better than that in this video, with ten Night Vision spread out and 40 Super Magnum shells breaking above. It looks amazing and now I'm considering getting a few more than two for my next show... [Link to original gallery here]

MANNING, S.C. - A 68-year-old man who was burned in an explosion at a fireworks stand has died from his injuries.

Clarendon County Coroner Hayes Samuels says Alton "Bubba" Bozeman of Manning died Friday morning at the James M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital of Augusta, Ga.

With a name like Bubba, this should come as no surprise... I know that was in insensitive joke, but it was very tempting, so my apologies. I wish there were more details here as I have a hard time believing 1.4G fireworks are solely to blame. There is nothing on the source of the fire, but those burns don't sound like they came from being close to a few boxes of 1.75" shells cooking off. I wonder if the christmas trees or that stand itself caught fire and caused the fatal burns rather than the (impossible) mass explosion the article seems to imply. I wouldn't be surprised if the fireworks had very little to do with this actually, and started going off from a fire that had already started.