In July,1997, here in Charlevoix, during the Venetian Festival Fireworks display, there was as misfire of a particularly large firework, and the resulting explosion and shrapnel killed one man, tore the left arm and left leg off a local restaurant owner, and sent over thirty people to the hospital.
BTW, is there a link to an article about the way and instructions necessary to start a thread? thank you.
large firework mishaps can and do kill people. What we are talking about here, is a very small device that was supposedly a homemade firecracker. A firecracker, and a firework are very different. Firecrackers are designed to make a loud bang. By all accounts this was described as a (loud/big) explosion.