Our group had an interview with Joe Rozzi, who has worked for Rozzi's Famous Fireworks for 20 years.  Here are some of the questions we asked him.

Q.  How have fireworks changed in the past 100 years?

A.  The selection of colors has widened and fireworks have had extreme safety improvements.

Q.  How exactly do you make fireworks?

A.  Rozzi makes fireworks on an assembly line operated by humans.   Machines are not used because they can set off the fireworks by producing static electricity.

Q.  How do fireworks get to be colored.

A. Different colors are made with different chemicals. Colors come in little pellet shapes called stars. All fireworks have some kind of fuel and oxadizer. To make green you add Barriem and Nitrate to the oxedizer.

Q. How do you get the fireworks to make the different designs?

A. There are two different ways to make designs. One is to put a bunch of colored fireworks in a certain order on the ground and time them to go off at the same time. Or they put the color (stars) in a certain order in one firework. This is very hard to do because everything has to be in the right order and cannot loosen.

Q. Which fireworks do you sell the most?

A. The Bright Comet. This fireworks is still trying to be duplicated! It lights up the intire night sky!

Q. How many fireworks do you sell a year?

A. About 200,000-300,000 are sold a year.

Q. How much money can fireworks range from?

A. A firework can range from $3. 00 to $2,00 0 .000!