GEORGE F. LEE / 2024 Illegal fireworks light the sky in the Punchbowl area. GEORGE F. LEE / 2024 Illegal fireworks light the sky in the Punchbowl area. Ways to toughen legal penalties for those caught ...

So, what exactly is an aerial cake? Richard Meier, a fire and explosion investigator with expertise in fireworks, said an aerial firework generally is lit on the ground and explodes in the air.

Consumer fireworks, like sparklers, can be used year-round; aerial fireworks are a different story. Many of the ones we're seeing across the Valley on and before New Year's were obtained illegally ...

One address on shipping documents in a seizure at Honolulu Harbor is the first in a chain of clues that lead across the ...

More arrests have been made in the illegal firework explosion that took place in Aliamanu, Hawaii, on New Year's Eve, bringing the total to 10.

Fernandez’s sentencing is scheduled for June 18 at 8 :30 a.m. “While working as an adult corrections officer, Mr. Fernandez had almost 95 pounds of aerial fireworks mailed to OCCC, the very ...

An Oʻahu fireworks company got a federal license to import tons of fireworks even though it didn’t have a state license to ...

The owners of the Aliamanu home at 4144 Keaka Drive, where a stockpile of illegal aerials accidentally detonated at a New Year’s party killing six people, were arrested today on suspicion of fireworks ...

HONOLULU (AP) — A former guard had illegal aerial fireworks mailed to Hawaii's largest jail where he worked, the state attorney general said Wednesday. Gilchrist Fernandez, a former corrections ...

To that end, Bill 7 calls for some illegal fireworks users to be convicted of more serious crimes. “If the total weight of the aerial devices, articles pyrotechnic, or display fireworks is 25 ...

EMS has over the years responded to injuries resulting from aerial fireworks hitting people in the face and neck, as well as the genitals and other extremities — and occasionally seen injuries ...