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Misfired Fireworks Spark Blaze at Coachella Festival Grounds During Green Day Set

Rogue fireworks caused a palm tree to catch fire at Coachella in Indio, California, on April 12, as Green Day was performing at the festival.Elizabeth Michele Rice captured this video of the blazing tree.“Pyrotechnics at the end of Green Day’s set of Coachella malfunctioned, sending a firework into the artist village, hitting a palm tree, exploding, and setting fire to it,” Rice told Storyful.“If the firework fell even two feet short of where it did, it would have hit a dense crowd of people on the pathway in the artist village backstage area.” Credit: Elizabeth Michele Rice via Storyful

Rogue fireworks caused a palm tree to catch fire at Coachella in Indio, California, on April 12, as Green Day was performing at the festival. Elizabeth Michele Rice captured this video of the blazing tree. “Pyrotechnics at the end of Green Day’s set of Coachella malfunctioned, sending a firework into the artist village, hitting a palm tree, exploding, and setting fire to it,” Rice told Storyful.

“If the firework fell even two feet short of where it did, it would have hit a dense crowd of people on the pathway in the artist village backstage area.” Credit: Elizabeth Michele Rice via Storyful.