Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe Feb. 10 (UPI) -- A Colorado town captured a Guinness World Record by detonating a nearly 2,800-pound firework shell over a mountain. The annual winter carnival in Steamboat Springs featured a special display Saturday night when a team from Steamboat Fireworks launched the massive shell, which measured 62 inches in diameter, from a 26-foot steel tube buried in Emerald Mountain, which overlooks the festival. Advertisement The firework detonated about a mile over the ground and captured the Guinness record for the world's largest firework. A Guinness official was on hand to verify the firework was larger than the previous record holder, a 2,397-pound shell launched in the United Arab Emirates in 2018. Steamboat Springs previously attempted the record last year, but was disqualified when the shell detonated too early. Read More Man comes down from pole after 78 days in a barrel New York state dog can fit six tennis balls in mouth at once New York man collects more than 1,500 unique pizza boxes
