BROOMFIELD, Colo. — It takes a village to put on a major fireworks show.
Hundreds are expected to gather at Broomfield County Commons Park Thursday night to celebrate the Fourth of July and watch fireworks. Tri-State Fireworks has been working around the clock to make sure the fireworks show goes off without a hitch.
"I’ve been working on this show for three or four months now," said Ryan Everett with Tri-State Fireworks.
The Brighton-based company puts on 75 Fourth of July fireworks displays between Colorado, Kansas and Nebraska. Everett described working for Tri-State Fireworks as a full-circle moment.
"I went to a show that this company put on probably when I was 10 years old. And after the show, I found a piece of one of the fireworks, and I kept that for 10-plus years. And now I work for that company," he said.
Now, he gets to give that joy and excitement to others.
"My favorite part is the challenge. There's a lot of logistics, physics, engineering, art that goes into these shows. I love the combination of having every bit of it," he said.
Everett said it all starts with "designing the show of your dreams" using computer software and then doing everything you can to make it happen.
"The interesting thing is all the electronics that go behind it. A lot of people think that it's just putting in shells and sending them up randomly. This show has been designed for months now. Every single firework is in its exact place. It's all choreographed," he said.
Everett said there is a lot of training, logistics and safety regulations that go into a show.
"How much equipment we have, how it's going to get put together, how many firework racks we have. There's tons of safety and regulation we have to make sure we're this distance from that and from the crowd," he said.
Tri-State Fireworks is putting on fireworks shows across Colorado in Estes Park, Firestone, Brighton, Fort Collins, Montrose, Broomfield, Northglenn and Windsor. The Broomfield display is expected to start around 9 p.m. on Thursday.
