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Two police officers were shot and injured during a July Fourth celebration in Philadelphia, NBC News reports. Both officers were taken to a local hospital and are in stable conditions. Video from the shooting shows thousands of people fleeing the scene, which unfolded in the city’s Fairmount Street-Art Museum area. Fireworks can be seen going […]
A Nashville man suffered minor burns after a stranger in a passing car threw a lit firework into his top-down convertible on the Fourth of July, Fox 11 reports. The horrific incident was captured on video. Colin Kirby said he was driving home from watching fireworks with his friends, when all of a sudden a live […]
The Hollywood Reporter has learned that Will Smith paid roughly $100,000 for a Fourth of July fireworks display over the Mississippi River in New Orleans. After city officials were forced to cancel last year’s fireworks because of the pandemic, financial woes threatened the annual display for a second straight year. That is, until the Independence Day actor and his Westbrook Entertainment […]
Employees of the fireworks company tasked with running July 4th celebrations in Ocean City, Maryland were injured Sunday after said fireworks unintentionally detonated hours ahead of the planned Independence Day display. WBAL reports the employees suffered minor injuries and refused to be taken to a local hospital, and no other beach or boardwalk visitors were injured as a result of the […]
Fireworks have sparked a wildfire in Utah, setting at least 1,000 acres ablaze early Sunday morning, Huffington Post reports. The fireworks ignited what has now been called the Traverse fire in the Traverse Mountains near Lehi, Utah, a city almost 30 miles south of Salt Lake City. No structures have been in danger and there have […]
FOX 4 Kansas City reports that a man died when he tried to light commercial-grade fireworks in an improvised mortar, just minutes after the Chiefs won their first championship in 50 years at Super Bowl LIV on Sunday night. Police said the incident occurred two minutes after the game came to an end at 9:15 p.m. Fireworks appeared to be the preferred celebration […]
Police say a guy who allegedly tried to hold up a fireworks stand in Texas was about to count up his would-be haul when an employee, using the suspect’s own gun, shot him. Deputies are on the scene at a fireworks stand in the 14400 block of the North Freeway. Preliminary reports are that a robbery […]
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