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<\/p>\nAttendees said the Fourth of July spectacle, celebrating the nation\u2019s and the city\u2019s birthdays, was a success, despite limited visibility. <\/p>\n
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Fireworks illuminate the Golden Gate Bridge during celebrations marking the 250th anniversary of U.S. Independence Day in San Francisco, California, on July 4, 2026. \u00a0(Karl Mondon\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n
\u201cI was stoked,\u201d said Zack Hoberg, who watched the display near Fort Point National Historical Site. \u201cIt was really cool, even when the fireworks were getting a little bit indistinct and lighting up the clouds instead of being just pure fireworks or whatever. There was a fun vibe, lots of people.\u201d<\/p>\n
The15-minute display was the first time Fourth of July fireworks have been shot from the Golden Gate Bridge\u2019s towers \u2014 which some of the thousands who braved the congested streets and crammed Muni trains for views said might be for good reason.<\/p>\n
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Onlookers watch San Francisco\u2019s fireworks show near Fort Point National Historic Site. (Courtesy of Zack Hoberg)<\/p>\n
\u201cIf only there were some way to tell if the bridge was a good place to put fireworks, perhaps by looking at the past 30 years of July 4th weather there,\u201d one Reddit poster said.<\/p>\n
But Hoberg, 35, who\u2019s lived in San Francisco for more than a decade, said he\u2019d known it\u2019d be a foggy scene. He also checked out webcams of the Bay shoreline prior to biking over to the Presidio, where he said he and others lining the railings along Marine Drive got a worthwhile show.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou could see both the fireworks going off from the deck of the bridge, that they were setting off from the south tower, and you could see the fireworks that were going off from the barge mid-bay. Everything that went high turned a little bit indistinct, but you could still see the light,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
People who watched the fireworks from further away, like Jan Martinez, had a more obstructed view.<\/p>\n
Knowing there was a high chance of fog disruptions, Martinez opted to stay at her home in North Beach, where she could see the barge shooting off fireworks near Pier 39.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou couldn\u2019t see anything high because it was high fog, but when they came down closer to the water, then you could see the fireworks,\u201d she told KQED.<\/p>\n
The special display was San Francisco\u2019s only official fireworks event of the year. Still, stray sparks lit the sky from the Mission to the Fillmore as some locals avoided the logistical nightmare of getting to the sanctioned show.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just stayed and kicked it with the homies, got some fireworks and did that on the block,\u201d North Beach resident Freddy Calderon said.<\/p>\n
Martinez said that while it would have been nice to have a clearer show, Saturday\u2019s festivities were very San Francisco.<\/p>\n
\u201cVery often, we have colored fog instead of fireworks, but it\u2019s the best we can do, and you just have to chuckle about it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
KQED\u2019s Desmond Meagley contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Attendees said the Fourth of July spectacle, celebrating the nation\u2019s and the city\u2019s birthdays, was a success, despite…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-388343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}