Authorities in Massachusetts said the Wareham resident was “setting off fireworks at the beach when one exploded in his face” Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been ...

An unpermitted fireworks barge that exploded, injuring a half-dozen people in Alabama. A man police say shot fireworks at people injuring them along a Delaware beach. An illegal neighborhood fireworks ...

Let freedom ring… in your ears. A bozo blasted illegal fireworks into a crowd of Fourth of July revelers in a Greenpoint park, leaving one woman with a perforated eardrum and her hair set aflame, she ...

The Fourth of July is anything but celebratory in the Emergency Room. Every year, doctors amputate fingers and hands damaged by fireworks. They try to save eyes. And sometimes they have to deliver the ...

A rapper and podcast host blew part of his hand off in a gruesome Fourth of July fireworks mishap after sharing a video on social media holding fireworks and joking about blowing somebody up. “Who ...

Ahead of the Fourth of July, the Bay Area Air District is asking residents to avoid using personal fireworks. Personal fireworks, from small sparklers to aerial skyrockets, cause pollution and ...

Firework smoke can "significantly pollute the air we breathe," according to the American Lung Association (ALA). Fireworks filled the night sky during the Independence Day weekend—and while they are a ...