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A shower of red magnesium flares fell over Wapping at about 10:30 pm, igniting three houseboat fires, burning holes in roofs, and terrifying residents who described the scene as “fireballs from the sky.” Approximately 60 red flares floated down on paper parachutes over the Thames, and they burned at over 1,000°C, hot enough to burnContinue reading “Fireballs From The Sky”