A Long Island fireworks manufacturer rang in the new year with a new world record. Fireworks by Grucci, based in Bellport, helped produce the world’s largest aerial firework shell that was launched ...

STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo. — “We tried last year, and we failed,” said Tim Borden, project manager at Steamboat Fireworks and one of a four-man team behind the firework that set a world record in ...

Engineering firework displays — which may seem like rocket science for some —is a form of artistic expression for Felix J. Grucci Jr., who has been blowing up rockets for nearly 60 years. “But science ...

When most of us think "fireworks," we think of brilliant bursts of light and color we've seen paint a night sky. But such bursts are merely the spectacular end of fireworks that likely took centuries ...

For Dan Nitzan’s first professional-fireworks job, he was supposed to remove a tarp protecting the final group of fireworks so that sparks wouldn’t accidentally land on them and set them off early. It ...

At last year’s winter carnival in Steamboat Springs, Loveland pyrotechnician Eric Krug watched as the firework he had spent hundreds of hours working on exploded prematurely while it was still ...