Students will get a chance to see fireworks on campus for the first time ever Friday night.
UCF Homecoming will be hosting a free fireworks display on campus at 9:30 p.m. at Memory Mall, with the fireworks shooting off of Garage D. The show will be accompanied with music to get students in the spirit for Saturday’s showdown against the Temple Owls.
To accomodate for the fireworks, Garage D and select rows in Lot D1 will be closed for the event.
Benjamin Bower, the UCF Homecoming Special Events director had to go through quite a long process to make an on-campus fireworks display a reality.
“Because we are a State University, we can’t just contact a fireworks company and say we want a show. We have to go through the State Fire Marshal in Tallahassee as well as getting permission from various groups on campus, such as Environmental Health & Safety,” said Bower. “It is quite the long process.”
Bower said that the best place to view the fireworks will be at Memory Mall, but the fireworks will be visible anywhere on campus.
