That would be me.
that was a crazy night. I was unloading a ferry at the TTC and all of a sudden we cast off and I'm like wait a minute...it's been way too long without Pyro. That takes the cake for stupid guest stories!
So, wait- that BS story about calling 911 is an actual thing? Disney has to abort the firework show because of this? Is that protocol? Good lord.
My room mate worked for RCFD at confirmed it to me. If someone calls in something like that, they have to take it serious, so yeah, the whole show shut down and it's true on the reason as far as I know.
911 calls on property go directly to reedy creek I believe. If they don't, then the minute you say WDW, 911 transfers to reed creek dispatch. Beyond that I'm not sure what the communication is, but I would imagine there are stand by firefighters with radios so they would know to shut down the show. Since everyone on Disney property uses these nextel radios, you can almost instantly get anybody you want if you have their number programmed into the radio. It's really quite neat. Oh how I miss my 10-13 weather broadcasts from control
Check back in the thread a bit- I was unfortunate enough to witness a show being cancelled because someone called 911.
Just imagine the Summer Nightastic Fireworks suddenly stopping, the music cutting out, the lights coming up on MSUSA and everyone groaning.
