PORT TOWNSEND — If you stood gazing at the whizzing, booming, crashing and flashing fireworks along the waterfront Wednesday, you have Dave Aldrich to thank for the show.
A Port Townsend pyrotechnist, Aldrich organized the 35-minute aerial display, launched from a barge 600-hundred feet off Indian Point.
Aldrich and four assistants set off more than 320 mortars and four “free-fuse” boxes from the barge.
Aldrich, wearing safety goggles and earplugs, was right where he wanted to be — ground zero.
“I like just getting to be out there, to be right under everything,” said Aldrich, who was licensed as a pyrotechnist last winter. “It makes you flinch every time they go off.”
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