Two people in Moses Lake suffer severe hand injuries from fireworks
MOSES LAKE, Wash. — Two people suffered severe injuries from unrelated incidents involving fireworks over the Fourth of July weekend.
According to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office, a man in his 40s was handling fireworks at the Moses Lake Sand Dunes Sunday night when the explosive blew up. He was flown to a Spokane hospital to be treated for a severe hand injury.
The other person was a 15-year-old boy whose hand was also severely injured when a firework he was handling at the Dunes Tuesday detonated. He was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
According to the sheriff’s office, the two are expected to survive.
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