Esparto,CA Fireworks Warehouse Explosion And Fire 7/1/2025

This is ,sadly, only the latest chapter of an ongoing story.

In 1902, William Randolph Hearst sponsored a fireworks display in Madison Square. There was a " malfunction". Reportedly, there were 17 fatalities (Box 598?).

An historian has observed; "As many people have died celebrating America's independence as had been killed in the war that won it".
 
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