Bridgeview police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 12:41 PM Sunday to 8100 Beloit Avenue Bridgeview, IL. Police at the Bridgeview Park District Food Truck and Fireworks festival reported about 12:41 p.m. Sunday that it appeared they had a full detonation of their fireworks.
Bridgeview’s official fireworks was schedule for Sunday night, July 3, 2016. The fireworks finale occurred about 9 hours ahead of schedule.
Due to unforeseen circumstances the fireworks show is cancelled for July 3rd. We are aggressively working to reschedule the fireworks and will keep everyone posted.
— Bridgeview Park District
All people at the site were accounted for by 12:43 pm.
Police reported a brush fire just west of “Kid’s Space City”.
A fireworks contractor supervisor was meeting with fire department command by about 12:45 pm.
Fireworks were still detonating intermittently at about 12:45 p.m.
The Cook County Bomb Squad was requested to the scene for “a lot of unexploded ordnance” reported by police.
There were unconfirmed reports of multiple injuries, a brush fire and a vehicle fire at the location of the official fireworks site for Bridgeview, Illinois.
There was no known requested for an EMS Box emergency for any type of multi-casualty incident.
A local Emergency Management Agency was called to the scene to assist police with crowd control and traffic control.
Several local police departments assisted Bridgeview Police Department.
Firefighter/paramedics from Central Stickney, Palos Heighst, and Orland stood by in Bridgeview fire stations while Bridgeview firefighter/paramedics managed the fireworks accident scene.
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