BALTIMORE (WJZ) – For more than 40 years, Baltimore has welcomed the new year with fireworks in the inner harbor. It’s no small task: it takes weeks of planning and construction before you light the first fuse.
The harbor offers a natural amphitheater where the sparkling sky is reflected over the calm waters below.
Pyrotechnician Aaron Troutman spent Monday morning filling a barge in the water with things exploding upside down.
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“It will stay in your face; you will feel it in your chest, ”he said.
Workers spent the day before the celebration fighting moisture, fog and rain, trying to protect the $ 36,000 from fireworks. Sponsors help make the event possible.
“It’s a big celebration,” Santiago Nocera told the Baltimore Office of Promotion and Arts. “It’s a tradition and people are waiting for it and we look forward to it.”
The big boom starts at exactly midnight, with a special broadcast starting at 11 a.m. at WJZ. Event organizers didn’t want to spoil anything, but said that if you think it’s over, it may not be over.