LANCASTER, N.Y. (WIVB) — What many across Western New York see on the Fourth of July is a sky full of colorful fireworks displays. But some probably aren’t aware of the enormous amount of effort it takes to put on these shows.
It’s the patriotic passion of pyrotechnics that has kept Jay Roll going for the past two decades with Skylighters Fireworks. It’s something he said he’s wanted to do since he was a kid.
“Either you’re into pyrotechnics or you’re not,” Jay said. “When you’re a kid, either you were blowing up firecrackers or doing something else. It’s guys that really have the fever for it that get into it. … I was working with a guy, and he goes, ‘Would you like to shoot fireworks professionally? And I go, ‘People can do that?’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah.’ It was unbelievable. It changed my life.”…