Pyro Productions
Pyro Productions, founded in 1995, is a professional fireworks display company based in Adamsville. The company was started by Deborah Foster Neu, the daughter of Crazy Bill's Fireworks founder William Cairns, with master pyrotechnician John D. Lathrop.
The company provides full-service design and production of traditional aerial pyrotechnic displays, "sky concerts" which combine pyrotechnic shells with computer-controlled theatrical lighting and lasers, stadium displays, set-pieces, musicals and indoor and theatrical pyrotechnics. The company, which keeps over 150 technicians and crew on call, also has an in-house videography department which can provide fully-edited multi-camera video production of their displays.
Pyro Productions has produced large-scale fireworks displays for the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics, the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Super Bowl XXXI in New Orleans, Pink Floyd's 1994 world tour, the opening of the Paris Casino in Las Vegas. Their local productions include Thunder on the Mountain on Red Mountain (since 1998) and major shows at Visionland, American Village in Montevallo and concerts in Moody, Alabaster, Florence, Hoover, Helena, Talladega, Mobile, and Decatur. The company also provides displays for sporting events such as the Senior Bowl, Iron Bowl, Birmingham Barons games, and indoor pyrotechnics for the Birmingham Steeldogs and Birmingham Bolts,
The company's facility on Poplar Lane in Adamsville has specially-built storage bunkers for their warehoused inventory.
References
- Bassing, Tom (September 19, 2003) "The rocket's red glare." Birmingham Business Journal.
- Gray, Jeremy (July 1, 2005) "Crazy Bill's daughters go pop for business." Birmingham News.
- Caddell, Marlin (July 5, 2005) "Celebrating freedom with a bang." Birmingham Post-Herald.
External links
- Pyro Productions website