Crews Prepare For Amazing Light Show On New Year's Eve
Four months of planning and four days of assembly are all for an amazing light show over the Inner Harbor.
Mary Bubala reports the New Year's Eve Spectacular is expected to be bigger and better than ever.
Before we see fireworks in the night sky celebrating the new year, we see lots of prep work on barges docked in Curtis Bay.
Crews are setting up fireworks for the Ports America Chesapeake New Year's Eve Spectacular.
"We count our displays on how many oohs and ahhs we are going to get throughout the night, and we are guaranteeing a lot tomorrow night at midnight," said Rocco Vitale, Pyrotecnico.
Pennsylvania-based company Pyrotecnico promises a high impact, innovative 18-minute show choreographed to music.
With good weather on tap, big crowds are expected to enjoy the fireworks show.
"Our crowd estimates range anywhere from 40,000 to 50,000 in the Baltimore downtown region, so with warmer weather you do expect larger crowds," said Dionne McConkey, Baltimore Office of Promotion & Arts.
Vitale took WJZ on a tour of one of two barges that will be stationed in the Inner Harbor. He says his company scours the earth looking for the best fireworks and there is something new this year.
"We buy a lot of product from a great vendor in Spain...beautiful products called double farfallas that are just phenomenal," said Vitale. "Two white outer rings and then there is a gold glittery pistol inside it that's really dynamite."
The fireworks can be seen from the Inner Harbor, downtown restaurants and homes in surrounding areas like Fells Point, Harbor East and Federal Hill.
The fireworks can also be seen on WJZ. The Ports America New Year's Eve Spectacular starts at 11 p.m. Friday on WJZ.
