A computer glitch led to a delayed fireworks show at the Seattle Center on Monday night as partiers waited to ring in the new year.
The show started on time at 11:59, said Mary Bacarella, spokeswoman for the Space Needle, but in the last minute of 2007 the crew from Pyro Spectaculars realized that the computer file running the show was corrupted.
Instead of continuing to use the bad file, the company's three-man crew, stationed in a trailer near the Needle, executed the show manually. "The whole show was supposed to last eight and a half minutes and it went for 11 and a half minutes," Bacarella said.
Bacarella said the show ran in numerical sequence and all the fireworks went off, but it was not in sync with the music. The show's accompaniment was a compilation of Oscar-winning tunes, including "Somewhere Over the Rainbow."
"This is the first time in 14 years this has ever happened," Bacarella said.
Pyro Spectaculars, which based in Northern California, has been responsible for the show during that period. "Usually, they would hit a button and the computer would run the whole program...," she said.
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