It’s time for fireworks
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POLSON — Black Cats, smoke bombs, bottle rockets, tanks, screaming chickens, snakes as well as the big cakes and artillery shells — they all come out to play in the two or three weeks prior to the Fourth of July.
Kids save their allowances, do chores and beg their parents for money to buy fireworks and then delight in setting them off.
At Pyromania Fireworks on Heritage Lane, one of those kids, Taylor, who always hung around the fireworks stand when he was small, now sells fireworks.
Owner Jamie Rice said she takes notes of future pyromaniacs when they’re small and tells them to come see here when they’re old enough to want a job.
Although business was slow until about July 1 according to Rice, now it’s picking up with nonstop traffic. Every year the fireworks get bigger and louder, she said. Their best seller is probably artillery shells.
“People are starting to figure out cakes, too,” Rice said.
Cakes are compact circles packed full of firecrackers or fireworks with only one fuse.
“There are lots of families this year,” Ally Hixon, employee at Pyromania, explained, “lots of people pooling their money.”
Early on when the fireworks stand was first up, lots of kids and dads were hanging out, Hixon added.
Karli Doerr, 6½ from Arlee, liked the snaps. The nice lady at Pyromania even gave her a sample snap to try out in the parking lot.
Two young men in their 20s bought a dozen Migraines to set off on Saturday, July 2, since they had to work on the Fourth of July. Migraines are noisy and big, a lot like ones you see in a show, Rice said.
Hixon’s family and friends set off a nice array of fireworks near their home between Polson and Ronan in the dusk of July 3, too. It’s an annual celebration, Hixon said.
Neither Rice nor Hixon nor Taylor will be relaxing with a Fourth of July picnic or boat ride. They’ll be selling fireworks with the rest of the Pyromania crew to light up the Fourth of July night sky.
