A rather unusual incident lead to yesterday’s evacuation of the Jones Beach in Long Island, where large quantities of unexploded fireworks ended up on the shore.

Once the shore started being assaulted by the firecrackers, lifeguards and parks staffers immediately requested all visitors to leave the scene as soon as possible in order to avoid any incidents and to make room for the intervention teams.

More than 2,000 visitors had to cut short their visit to the beach and fortunately, everyone managed to evacuate the area in time, as no mishaps occurred.

According to the authorities, the unexploded ’munition’ which even presented some pieces of about 8 inches long, ended up on the beach after their lauch during one of Friday’s shows for the 4th of July. Apparently, they belong to Bay Fireworks.
The company’s officials explained that, usually, there is a very strict monitoring process which deals with all unexploded shells and a good explanation for the situation has not yet been found.

The authorities treated the matter with extreme consideration, even verifying the garbage cans in the area just to make sure that there were no pieces picked up on the beach and thrown away.

Tony Astacio, park police Sgt, explained for Newsday that the issue indeed demanded their full attention, because even though the shells were filled with water, in the event that any of them were left behind to dry and a spark from a cigarette or anything else touched them, they could have easily exploded.

Jones Beach State Park managed to bring together more than 500,000 people over the Memorial Day weekend, being one of New York’s most popular summer spots.