It is very sad that it had to happen a second year in a row. It speaks loudly since media likes to report the negative news, and hopefully it will not hurt the future of the PGI convention as a whole. If we can't all follow the rules PGI sets for us, things like this are likely to keep happening. Eventually cities will not want us to visit them at all and law enforcement will probably become more and more restrictive on what we can do. There was no released information about what happened, but from the photograph on the front page of the local news paper I do not believe it could have been class C fireworks alone. The top section of the entire camper was leveled in the photo, and material spread about. It looked like one single, high energy blast. One can speculate that this was probably another 'flash' accident, but that is not certain.
This year, on the first two days I was there 3-7 commercial vehicle code enforcement vehicles (I took this as the Iowa equivalent of D.O.T) guarded the path to the magazine, and one at the entrance to the grounds. Squad cars both local and state (including an IL state police car) made rounds through the PGI parking section. I saw only a few fully outfitted police walking around the grounds, but I'd imagine that many were there in plain clothes. Its already tight, and people having accidents isn't going to make it any better. I can only imagine next year in WI - where the police are already so plentiful in every day life how tight PGI will be.
On the bright side, this accident happened at a remote camping ground. It was not on PGI grounds and from what the news article said, so no other people were hurt aside from one man and one woman who were in the trailer. It could have been worse if they were camping in the heavily populated PGI camping areas. It's just too bad... I hope the guy pulls through.
