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A 9-year-old Los Angeles girl lost her left hand in an illegal fireworks blast Saturday, police said, as Independence Day firecrackers injured people around the country. But does this mean that they will contact a Los Angeles personal injury lawyer about her loss?
The hospitalizations and serious injuries happened to police officers and civilians from coast to coast, with a firecracker ripping a 31-year-old Nebraska man’s hand off and hurling it 90 feet away.
Arson and explosives detectives are investigating the 12:30 p.m. firecrackers in Burrell-MacDonald Park in Compton, Calif., after doctors amputated the girl’s hand and multiple fingers from her right hand, according to the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department. She also received treatment for blast injuries to her face but was reported to be in stable condition.
Deputies had yet to arrest any suspects Sunday night as they examine who blew off the fireworks, KCAL-TV reported. Investigators said they were likely illegal firecrackers or explosives.
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Investigators said in a statement that they "would like to remind the public that all fireworks are [a] hazard and can cause injury.” The detectives asked anyone with information to contact the department.
Three Chicago police officers went to the hospital after incidents related to fireworks over the holiday weekend.
Someone inside a moving red Toyota Camry tossed a “half stick of dynamite” out the window at a squad car two officers were using to patrol the South Shore neighborhood around 4:20 p.m. on Sunday, Chicago police department spokeswoman Officer Nicole Trainor told the Chicago Tribune. The officers had their windows rolled up, but the explosion disabled the car on S. Exchange Ave.
The officers went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in good condition with non-life threatening injuries Trainor told the newspaper. Police had yet to make any arrests Sunday night.
A “small novelty firework” placed under a toilet at the department’s 17th District station as a possible prank went off when an officer went into the bathroom around 5:50 a.m. Monday morning, Trainor told the local newspaper. The officer went to a nearby hospital as a precaution.
Meanwhile, Justin Noah dialed 911 to report his hand had been blown off by a powerful firecracker Sunday night in Valley, Neb., outside Omaha, fire officials told KETV. An emergency crew recovered the hand 90 feet from where he said he had ignited the blast around 7 p.m. at a lakeside residential area.
The blast also injured Noah’s left eye, Valley Fire & Rescue Department Fire Chief Aaron Ueckert told the Omaha World-Herald.
“This was not a typical Fourth of July firework,” Ueckert said. Noah was awake and alert as a helicopter crew rushed him to Nebraska Medical Center.
Two more people lost appendages near a Washington state casino late Monday.
A man lost his hand while holding fireworks that then exploded at around 10:30 p.m. near the Muckleshoot Casino 20 miles south of Seattle in Auburn, according to KOMO-TV.
The second victim lost a hand during a second incident at around 11 p.m. — near the casino’s bingo hall.
In New York City, a 42-year-old woman lost as many as two fingers while playing with fireworks early Monday on Brooklyn Ave. in Brooklyn's East Flatbush neighborhood, police sources told the Daily News. The accident happened the day after what investigators described as a “homemade” explosive blew off the foot of an 18-year-old Virginia man in Central Park.
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