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Great balls of fire roll upward during the July 4 fireworks show downtown. The massive eruptions were Cremora fireballs, yes, that’s the dry coffee creamer. The heat could be felt many yards away.
By Hunter Hine Staff Writer (June 7, 2023) Ocean City’s Fourth of July fireworks returned this year with a multitude of bangs at the Caroline Street beach and Northside Park after not having lit-up resort skies since 2019. “I think it (fireworks) was the best and I’ve been here 51 years,” said Butch Arbin, captain of the Ocean City Beach Patrol. “It’s the best fireworks display I’ve ever seen here in Ocean City.”
What made this resurrection of the resort’s fireworks display different from years past was its fast pace, said Frank Miller, special events director for Ocean City. “You never lost your momentum through the entire 20 minutes of the show,” Miller said. The Pennsylvania-based company Celebration Fireworks, which put on the show, did a “great job” of blending low-altitude pyrotechnics with high-bursting fireworks, Miller said. See CELEBRATION Page 4