bird battle

The event takes place in English Bay at 10:00 PDT on four nights, beginning on the Wednesday and ending on a Saturday, on the two week period during July and August. Each of the four performances have no less than a three-day separation for preparation for an additional competitor. Three companies representing their countries perform a twenty-five minute firework display set to music. A grand finale is performed on the last day by each of the competitors. The Walter Kindle Company first invented the fractional co2 extinguisher in 1924 with the request in the Bell Telephone Company. Bell had been having difficulty locating a dry chemical extinguisher which could effectively extinguish the electrical fires that sometimes broke out on early telephone switchboards. The CO2 proved particularly efficient at controlling electrical fires, in addition to their popularity quickly grew during the entire industrial sector.