The illegal firework explosion that took place in Aliamanu, Hawaii, also known as Salt Lake, has left five people dead and two arrested.
One of the six patients hospitalized at a burn center in Arizona has died, officials confirmed Tuesday.Arizona’s Maricopa County identified the latest fatality as Kevin Vallesteros, 29. Honolulu police said he died at approximately 6:40 a.
Two GoFundMe pages named Kevin Vallesteros as the man who died on Jan. 28 while being treated in Phoenix for burns from a Hawaii fireworks explosion.
This story has been updated to include the victim’s name. A 29-year-old man is the fifth person to die from the fireworks explosion in a Honolulu neighborhood on New Year’s Eve. The man, identified by Maricopa County officials as 29-year-old Kevin Vallesteros,
Maricopa and Pinal counties both failed to meet federal air quality standards and will now become part of an Arizona State University study.
A fifth person has died from injuries suffered during a massive explosion of illegal fireworks at a Honolulu home over New Year's, police said Tuesday. The 29-year-old man was one of six people flown to a hospital in Arizona for treatment earlier this month because Hawaii's only burn care facility hit capacity with other patients