(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — Fourth of July fireworks displays in several suburbs were cancelled following the Highland Park parade shooting, but it's possible at least some of those shows could happen later this summer.
Matt Peterson, regional manager and creative director for Pyrotecnico, said his company saw more than a dozen of its suburban fireworks displays canceled.
It actually is more dangerous for his crews to disassemble those installations than it would have been to set them off.
“We like to put it in the sky and not take it back out and put it in boxes,” Peterson told WBBM Newsradio on Thursday. “And it’s safer to put it in the sky, to be honest with you, than have to disassemble igniters and fireworks and get them packaged back up safely and back onto a truck.”
He said his company is in early talks with several suburban leaders to reschedule the fireworks shows for next month or around Labor Day.
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