Tens of thousands of people in San Francisco gathered Tuesday for the area’s biggest fireworks display, and they got a great show.
The show went off without a hitch, visibility was much better than most years and people from around the Bay Area, and the world, said they loved it.
Huge crowds packed in at spots around the Bay to watch the rockets as they blasted off from barges and exploded in the air.Get a weekly recap of the latest San Francisco Bay Area housing news.“Awesome. I really like it,” said Andrea Olacabal of Peru. “We wanted to be in a place where fireworks is huge. El Paso is not as big,” said Francisco Macias of El Paso, Texas.
The pyrotechnics team set their rockets to explode lower in the air to avoid as much of the fog layers as possible, and it seemed like it worked.
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