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KEN LAMBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES

With downtown Seattle in the background, Scott Streeper of Pyro Spectaculars works atop the Space Needle on Sunday to set up fireworks, seen at right, for New Year's Eve. The 8-minute show will begin shortly before midnight, Pacific Time.

KEN LAMBERT / THE SEATTLE TIMES

Working at a hatch leading to the top the Space Needle, Scott Streeper, at upper left, and Ryan Arnold, at lower right, both with the company Pyro Spectaculars, help bring up a fireworks platform that is known as a "porcupine" and will shoot off in multiple directions New Year's Eve.