The Midland Police Department posted a video on their Facebook page this week of the “disposal” (pretty benign word once you see the video) of 20,000 pounds of seized fireworks in Glasscock County, east of Midland.

The department said their bomb squad assisted the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives along with bomb squads from Lubbock, Odessa and Amarillo.

The fireworks were seizures of already adjudicated cases ready for disposal from various regional offices, said ATF Senior Special Agent John Morrison. He said the bureau safely detonates accrued contraband fireworks a few times a year.

Many bomb technicians have been harmed in the past trying to dispose of pyrotechnics because of variables in their compositions including flash powder, said Morrison, and that having many bomb squads on hand spreads experience in safely disposing of the pyrotechnics.

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