A 29-year-old man was severely injured when a firework exploded in his hand in Bern Township minutes into the new year, police said. Police, fire and emergency medical personnel were dispatched to ...

“I thought it was a quarter stick [firework], but it may have been an M-80,” he said ... Investigators discovered remnants of fireworks at the scene of the explosions, according to a news ...

The chief said the fireworks that caused the injury cannot be purchased legally by consumers under Pennsylvania’s fireworks law. It packed the explosive power of an M-80, he said. The man was ...