South Carolina gets an early fireworks display after storage facility next to a shop catches fire sending hundreds of colorful explosives into the sky
- Boxes of fireworks caught alight inside a storage facility in Fort Mills, South Carolina early Thursday morning
- The blaze created an unintended fireworks show, with the explosives lighting up the sky above the small town
- It took firefighters close to an hour to contain the blaze, with responders having dodge rogue fireworks exploding around them
- There have been no reports of injuries and investigators are now probing the cause of the fire
A Fourth of July fireworks display came early to residents in Fort Mills, South Carolina, when containers full of the explosive devices caught fire at dawn on Thursday.
Authorities say a blaze broke out in a storage facility behind Davey Jones Fireworks, located just off Interstate 77.
The fire began around 5.45 am and the storage facility is said to have housed ‘dozens of boxes containing fireworks’, according to WCNC.
Fire crews worked for nearly an hour to contain the flames, and simultaneously had to watch out for rogue fireworks that were exploding around them.
Remarkably, there were no reports of injuries.
Fireworks exploded into the sky after a fire broke out in a storage facility behind a store in Fort Mills, South Carolina on Thursday
WCNC reports that several employees were already inside Davey Jones Fireworks preparing for a busy day of trade to mark the Fourth of July.
Investigators are now looking into what sparked the blaze, but they do not suspect it was deliberately lit.
Meanwhile, incredible footage of the event was captured by Twitter user Michael Stechschulte.
The vision shows the early morning sky being lit up by the sparklers, which rise above smoke and flames from the fire.
Americans spend $1 billion on Fourth of July fireworks every year, and The American Pyrotechnics Association estimates that more than 14,000 fireworks displays light up the skies each Independence Day.
Incredible footage of the event was captured by Twitter user Michael Stechschulte
The vision shows the early morning sky being lit up by the sparklers, which rise above smoke and flames from the fire