MANCHESTER — With today being Independence Day, the American Red Cross and state officials have issued safety warnings about the use of fireworks around the July 4th holiday.
Nationwide nearly 20,000 fires a year are started by fireworks. In 2023, fireworks claimed eight lives and 9,700 people were treated in hospital emergency rooms for fireworks-related injuries, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Sixty-six percent of these injuries occurred in July.
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