At least 3 dead, multiple injured in massive New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in Hawaii

At least three people are dead and two dozen are injured after a New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in a Honolulu residential neighborhood, officials said.

At least three people are dead and two dozen are injured after a New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in a Honolulu residential neighborhood, officials said.

The explosion occurred at a house 3 miles west of Fort Shafter, the headquarters of U.S. Army Pacific. Videos posted to social media by neighbors show a rapid series of bursts creating a blinding light next to the house as fireworks erupted around the city just after midnight.

Honolulu police said the explosion occurred after someone lit an “aerial cake” — a combination of multiple aerial firework cartridges that resemble a sheet cake — that fell to the side and rocketed into crates of additional caches of pyrotechnics, then erupted outward. Organic material from people hit by the blast was found on windows across the street from the epicenter.

Two women were pronounced dead at the scene, and a third died later at the hospital, police said. Their identities have not yet been released.

“I’ve been in EMS for over 30 years and this is probably one of the worst calls I’ve ever been on as far as just the immense tragedy and amount of patients and severity of the injuries,” Dr. James Ireland, director of Honolulu’s Department of Emergency Services, said at an early morning news conference Wednesday. 

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/least-3-dead-multiple-injured-new-years-eve-fireworks-explosion-rcna185947


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