A large New Year's firework malfunctioned, causing a deadly explosion in Honolulu, Hawaii, killing three women and injuring over 20 others.
Emergency crews responded to a chaotic and gruesome scene in a Honolulu neighborhood after a large New Year's firework tipped over and ignited, causing a fiery explosion. Two women died at the scene and another died in the hospital, authorities said Wednesday. A third woman died in hospital, authorities said. They urged people to abandon their New Year's tradition of setting off fireworks across the city. Officials promised tougher penalties for illegal fireworks.
Hawaii Governor Josh Green described the deaths in detail at a news conference to emphasize the danger of fireworks. He said: “We are talking about the worst possible, war-zone injuries that took their lives.” Some of the more than 20 people taken to the hospital with severe burns and shrapnel wounds included children, officials said, who had not yet publicly identified any victims. Police were investigating whether charges against the person who lit the firework around midnight were warranted. The blast occurred at a three-story home with a ground-level carport. Piles of debris, including bundles of blackened firework mortars, could be seen in front of the house Wednesday morning. The explosion shattered windows across the street. It happened when a lit bundle of aerial, mortar-style fireworks, called a “cake,” tipped over or fell off a table and fired sideways into crates containing additional fireworks, which then exploded. The cake's rounds could be separated but had been lit as a bundle of 50, part of what officials said was tens of thousands of dollars' worth of fireworks. Ambulance crews arrived at the home but had to treat victims with the worst injuries several houses away because of parked cars and crowds on the streets, Honolulu's emergency services department director, Dr. Jim Ireland, said. Some people nearby continued setting off fireworks even as victims of the explosion were being taken to the hospital, officials said
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