NHL Player Dies in Fireworks Accident

[Hoofbite]

Details are a bit scarce and I’m on mobile so sorry for no link.

Think he was about 24 years old. Took a mortar shell to the chest after a wayward fire.

Absolutely awful. Have to believe it was a little more than your standard fireworks warehouse pack.

 

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Full coverage here... not at ESPN or People, etc...

Columbus Blue Jackets goaltender Matiss Kivlenieks died of chest trauma from an errant fireworks mortar blast in what authorities described Monday as a tragic accident at a Michigan home on the Fourth of July.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...-killed-firework-home-coach-Manny-Legace.html

 

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How to light fireworks (artillery shells, mortars)

 

[Hoofbite]

No thanks. Like my dad said this year when I asked if he was going to watch. "If you've seen 'em once, you've seen them all".