This Tuesday's 'mascletà' in the Valencia City Hall square, the nineteenth and last of this year's Fallas, and its historic and "forceful" earthquake, has caused several of the windows on the ground floor of the building to break. council and has forced À Punt to signal the event "blindly", when the monitors went off due to the roar of the gunshot.
On the one hand, as a result of the pyrotechnic show, carried out by Pirotecnia del Mediterráneo, which included an earthquake distributed over three floors high, a pair of windows in the Tourism office located on the ground floor of the town hall were broken. in the same Town Hall square, as confirmed by municipal sources.
On the other hand, the professionals of the Valencian public television, À Punt, have had to "blindly" make the signal from the 'mascletà', when the monitors of the mobile unit installed in the Town Hall square by the roar of the shot, as detailed by the chain itself on social networks. Precisely for this reason, he wanted to highlight and praise the difficult task at that time of the director, Dani Vila, whom he described as "a master."
Pirotecnia del Mediterráneo has been in charge of firing the last mascletà of these faults, a complex spectacle, with three floors and 330 kilos of gunpowder, the maximum allowed in the square, and which has left the most powerful earthquake ever heard in this epicenter of the fallera party.
"I'm happy because they are complex shots, there are people who think that putting a lot of material is very easy but no, it is very complicated," said pyrotechnician Antonio García, who received the ovation and applause from the entire square once the shot was over. mascletà.
