Four people were recovering Friday after being injured in a home fireworks display in Port Jefferson Station. News 4’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.
Four people were recovering Friday after being injured in a home fireworks display in Port Jefferson Station on Independence Day, police said. Several cars parked on the street were also damaged in the incident that quickly got out of control.
Police said a large group of people were watching the fireworks display at a home on Foxrun Court around 10 p.m. "when a firework went astray" at the finale. A neighbor told NBC New York that the home has put on a fireworks show for the past several years, but this year, the fireworks accidentally "spread out on the ground instead of going up in the air."
Two men, a woman, and an 8-year-old girl were all injured in the incident, according to Suffolk County police. The four victims were taken to Stony Brook University Hospital. One of the victims is being treated for burns and a serious leg injury, while another was treated for burns and a severed finger, police said.
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SIGN UP Remnants of the fireworks could be seen near the home afterward, and a Jeep's windshield was left shattered. The owner of the vehicle was inside at the time and came out afterward to see the damage. Police said there have been no arrests connected with the incident.
Detectives are asking anyone with information to call 631-854-8652.
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The Port Jefferson incident was one of several fireworks accidents on Long Island over the Fourth of July holiday that left people injured.
In a separate incident on Long Island, police said a man severed three fingers on his left hand and damaged the other two fingers in a fireworks accident in Copiague, police said.
In a third accident, a 33-year-old Long Island man was arrested over a firework accident that involved an 11-year-old kid and two homes on fire in Levittown, authorities say.
