Hot Chocolate

02 Nov 08, 7.37pm
Servicing the 100+ displays going out from FF HQ means early starts and late finishes. Crews will often be collecting vehicles ready loaded with equipment and fireworks at 7 or 8 in the morning prior to a drive of perhaps 2 or 3 hours before setting up the display. Depending on the complexity and size of the display between 2 and a dozen people will be working on site for 5 to 10 hours before the first firework is lit. Maybe 10 to 20 minutes of sparkling sky-filling entertainment later, the long haul of returning the equipment to the van and clearing up begins, to end with an arrival back at FF HQ before or sometimes after midnight.

And Cocoa awaits. My job, among many, is to make sure a steaming mug of delicious hot chocolate welcomes the firers back and sets them up for their final drive home.

Fantastic Fireworks. And hot chocolate. It's what we do. It's what we drink.