{"id":243738,"date":"2017-01-04T06:00:31","date_gmt":"2017-01-03T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=243738"},"modified":"2017-01-04T06:00:31","modified_gmt":"2017-01-03T20:00:31","slug":"woman-killed-new-years-day-fireworks-explosion-hawaii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/woman-killed-new-years-day-fireworks-explosion-hawaii\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed in New Year\u2019s Day fireworks explosion in Hawaii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HONOLULU<\/strong> (AP)\u2014A fireworks explosion at a large New Year\u2019s Day gathering on the Hawaiian island of Oahu has left one woman dead and a man critically injured, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The pair had been lighting illegal fireworks at the gathering when the explosion happened, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency personnel arrived just after midnight Sunday at the Campbell Industrial Park in Kapolei to find the two victims injured. The 38-year-old woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition and died from her injuries. The 36-year-old man remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police have opened an unattended death and prohibited explosive device investigation, but no one has been arrested or cited. Honolulu Police Department spokeswoman Sarah Yoro said Monday no further information was being released at this time.<\/p>\n<p>Honolulu\u2019s Emergency Medical Services said the woman\u2019s death was among dozens of other fireworks-related incidents over the weekend. The agency responded to 28 calls within the first hour of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Many people in\u00a0Hawaii\u00a0celebrate the new year by setting off fireworks. Firecrackers may be bought and used with a permit on Oahu, but many other types of fireworks that people set off are illegal.<\/p>\n<p>The Honolulu Fire Department also had a busy weekend, Fire Capt. Kevin Mokulehua said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Honolulu Fire Department responded to 19 fireworks-related incidents which doubled last year\u2019s incident totals,\u201d Mokulehua said. \u201cMost of the incidents were wildland fires, some structure fires and other miscellaneous fires.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HONOLULU (AP)\u2014A fireworks explosion at a large New Year\u2019s Day gathering on the Hawaiian island&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[14954,10296,14955,67],"class_list":["post-243738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-emergency-medical-services","tag-honolulu-police-department","tag-kevin-mokulehua","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}