CAMBRIA COUNTY, Pa. \u2014 We are just days away from Pittsburgh\u2019s biggest Fourth of July celebration yet.<\/p>\n
The actual shells for Saturday night fireworks are moving into place this week along the Ohio River.<\/p>\n
Star Fire Corporation is putting on the big show. It\u2019s a family business and they make a lot of their own fireworks.<\/p>\n
Channel 11\u2019s Jenna Harner went to Carrolltown in Cambria County to see all the work that goes into the show.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s set to be the biggest fireworks display in Pittsburgh\u2019s history. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe city of Pittsburgh has the best viewing ever, because anywhere in town you see it, because it\u2019s right there in front of you. There\u2019s really not a bad seat in the house,\u201d vice president of Star Fire Corporation, Vince Terrizzi Jr., said.<\/p>\n
Fireworks will electrify the sky for close to a half-hour as they\u2019re set off from five barges floating in the three rivers and, special this year: from the rooftop of the Wyndham Grand Pittsburgh Downtown. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s really going to enhance the whole city, and the point,\u201d Terrizzi said. <\/p>\n
It may be an understatement to say the team, from the technicians to the designers to the shell builders, is working around the clock.<\/p>\n
\u201cThirty hours straight, just sitting there behind a computer and stuff. A lot, a lot of caffeine gets them through. To us, it\u2019s our hometown, because we\u2019re so close, and it just, it means the world to us. So there is a lot more pressure on it for us, because we care so much, you know. It\u2019s not like, oh, you, sorry, it didn\u2019t go so well, you know. So it\u2019s just, we really, we\u2019re putting a lot into this,\u201d Terizzi said.<\/p>\n
With fireworks going off from all of the barges and the rooftop, spectators will be surrounded by the glow of the shimmering lights and the thunderous booms like never before.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s like, like you\u2019re at an orchestra where they bring you to the end of your seat, and they slide you back, and then they bring you to the end of your seat, and at the end they want you standing, and you know, and clapping, and that\u2019s what you want to do,\u201d Terrizzi said.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s one aspect in particular that really sets this year\u2019s show apart.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe noise, I got to tell you, it\u2019s definitely going to be loud, but you can move that kind of air, and you can feel it in your, in your body; then you know you\u2019re doing something good,\u201d Terrizzi said.<\/p>\n
Fireworks seem to mean just a little bit more to us here in Pittsburgh and in the heart of the city on America\u2019s 250th birthday, it\u2019s set to be a historic spectacle for a celebration of our nation\u2019s history.<\/p>\n
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