By Allan Jamail
Every year thousands from Jacinto City and Galena Park come out to see the fireworks.
Also hundreds of vehicles every year line up on the IH-10 Freeway headed east & west and park on the shoulder to watch the fireworks.
Former Jacinto City mayor Allan Jamail explained, “Years ago, each city did their own fireworks display independent of each other, and the fireworks show always lasted about 15 minutes. So I got with the Galena Park Elected officials and asked them if they would join with us and pool our money together and buy the fireworks together to get a longer show. This way we would have a much longer display. So we’ve done that ever since.”
The fireworks show lasts almost 30 minutes. This year’s fireworks show cost each city about $13,500.