It later emerged the bangs had been a false alarm and were caused by firecrackers.
There are old home movies of Skakel family dinners disrupted by firecrackers, and shots of brawny boys roughhousing.
More than 900 people were injured by firecrackers and celebratory gunfire during last year's celebrations from Christmas to New Year's.
Accompanied by firecrackers and fog signals, the train ran to Brill, where the passengers posed for a photograph.
Accompanied by firecrackers and fog signals, the train ran the length of the line to Brill, where the passengers posed for a photograph.
VICE News reporters arrived on the scene at the St . Paulmetro station about 10 minutes after the panic, and spoke with several people who said the commotion was caused by firecrackers going off.
The couple were living under a highway bridge over the summer, where they were abused by passers-by throwing firecrackers, but were able to move when Layton got a semi-permanent job cutting grass along state and federal roads.
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12 min: Well, my rusty fingers have been well and truly rebaptised by this firecracker of a Uefa Cup tie.
In the most serious incident, a match between Strasbourg and Metz in December was abandoned after the female assistant referee Nelly Viennot was hit by a firecracker.
And yet, a dozen years after Heller's death, Ms. Heller has achieved the distance to write a (mostly) loving history of her father and mother's courtship (facilitated by her firecracker grandmother, Dottie Held), along with a fairly cool-headed chronicle of the transformations her father's fame wrought on his family's home life and social life, and on his own behavior.
