Saturday, August 1, 2015

1 YOUNG WOMAN KILLED AFTER TWO CONTAINERS OF FIREWORKS EXPLODE AT PALO DURO CANYON STATE PARK IN TEXAS

 








PALO DURO CANYON STATE PARK — 

A stage manager of the amphitheater at Palo Duro Canyon State Park in Texas is dead after two containers of fireworks exploded. 

Randall County Sheriff’s Deputy Danny Alexander says the 21-year-old woman was taking inventory when the explosion happened shortly before 6 p.m. Friday. No cause has been determined. The woman’s name hasn’t be released. 

The amphitheater is about 25 miles south of Amarillo. The outdoor musical “TEXAS” has been performed there for 50 years. Pyrotechnics are used throughout the show. 

Friday’s performance was canceled. 


Palo Duro is Spanish for hard wood, referring to the Rocky Mountain junipers in the canyon. 

Palo Duro Canyon is the second largest canyon system in the United States. The canyon is about120 miles long and 20 miles wide, and is up to 800 feet deep. It extends from Canyon to Silverton. 

You can see the beautiful colors of the four geologic layers as you descend 500 feet to the floor of the canyon. The canyon began forming a million years ago. But the walls of the canyon tell a much older geologic story - about 250 million years old