{"id":328328,"date":"2026-07-03T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328328\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T12:03:10","slug":"blanford-and-jacksonville-fireworks-wlds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328328\/","title":{"rendered":"Blanford and Jacksonville Fireworks \u2013 WLDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man in charge of tomorrow night\u2019s fireworks for the Jacksonville 4th of July celebration at Nichols Park is hopeful Mother Nature will cooperate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fred Blanford has been involved with the city fireworks display for 26 years.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/wiyc\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WESTERN-IL-YOUTH-CAMP.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fireworks will begin sometime between 8:30 and 9 tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And, Blanford says more bucks this year means more of a bang.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The bi centennial committee for the city of Jacksonville provided funding they had to up the budget this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blanford says he\u2019s been digging around to find things that haven\u2019t been used here before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blanford says new displays will be featured at the start, middle and end of the evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Jacksonville fire chief Matt Summers and Blanford will make the call for tomorrow night. Right now, the weather could include scattered showers and thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Blanford says the rain isn\u2019t as much of an issue as lightning. He expects the call will be made by 7 or 8 tomorrow night.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man in charge of tomorrow night\u2019s fireworks for the Jacksonville 4th of July celebration at Nichols Park&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":148809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-328328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}