After more than three decades, Vancouver’s Celebration of Light fireworks, one of the city’s highest-profile and most popular public events, has fizzled out due to escalating costs and dwindling government and private funding.

The fireworks show, which attracts enormous crowds to the shores of English Bay each summer, has been cancelled for good, said organizers.

“The numbers don’t add up anymore,” said executive producer Paul Runnals. “We’ve literally exhausted every means that we can. We’ve been talking to everybody we can the last few months — the last few years, quite frankly — and at a certain point you have to make the hard decision.

“It’s really unfortunate and very disappointing.”

Organizers sounded the alarm last summer, warning the long-running event, which started in 1992 as

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