Fireworks setup painstaking job
Veteran pyrotechnician Scott Allsbrook loads a fireworks shell into a tube during setup for the 2020 Freedom Festival fireworks display.
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Lisa Allsbrook, right, is handed the next set of fireworks shells in the sequence. Alex Allsbrook hands off. The Allsbrook family set up the Freedom Festival fireworks show on July 4.
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Andrew Allsbrook carefully loads fireworks shells into mortar tubes during setup for the Freedom Festival fireworks display July 4. Jacob Johnson, another member of the crew, watches.
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Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald Andrew Allsbrook, left, and Jacob Johnson check fireworks shells after they’re unloaded from the box and before they’re loaded into the mortar tubes. They were setting up the 2020 Freedom Festival fireworks show, which took most of the day.
Andrew Allsbrook unloads a fireworks shell. Allsbrook and other members of his family were setting up the 2020 Freedom Festival fireworks show July 4.
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Andrew Allsbrook, left, checks the fuse on a fireworks shell while setting up the Freedom Festival fireworks display July 4. Jacob Johnson, right, hands off another shell.
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Alex Allsbrook checks the number of a fireworks shell to ensure the proper loading sequence.
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MOSES LAKE — Alex Allsbrook pointed out the irony as he was helping set up the July 4 Freedom Festival fireworks display.
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