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Tell Us: How Should Hawaiʻi Handle Illegal Fireworks? David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

Tell Us: How Should Hawaiʻi Handle Illegal Fireworks?

Love them or hate them, we want to hear your ideas as we continue to report on this divisive issue.

Fireworks Disposal Planned At Aloha Stadium Saturday Cory Lum/Civil Beat/2015

Fireworks Disposal Planned At Aloha Stadium Saturday

Anyone with unused fireworks can bring them to the amnesty event.

Woman Killed In Honolulu Fireworks Explosion Is Identified Screenshot/Hawaii News Now/2025

Woman Killed In Honolulu Fireworks Explosion Is Identified

Carmelita Benigno, 61, is the fourth victim to be identified.

Full-Time Criminal Investigative Unit Proposed To Tackle Illegal Fireworks David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

Full-Time Criminal Investigative Unit Proposed To Tackle Illegal Fireworks

A task force that began its work long before the recent tragedy in Salt Lake also recommends a unified fireworks permitting system in Hawaiʻi and $2 million for a new firearms and explosives lab.

Fireworks Burn Patients Stable In Arizona As Blast Death Toll Rises To 4 David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

Fireworks Burn Patients Stable In Arizona As Blast Death Toll Rises To 4

City officials said a 3-year-old boy injured in the New Year’s Eve explosion died at Kapiolani Medical Center for Women and Children on Monday morning.

3-Year-Old Boy Is 4th Victim Of Honolulu Fireworks Explosion, Police Say Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

3-Year-Old Boy Is 4th Victim Of Honolulu Fireworks Explosion, Police Say

UPDATE: City officials identified the child as Cassius Ramos-Benigno.

Too Many To Handle: Fireworks Tragedy Overwhelms Hawaiʻi’s Medical System Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

Too Many To Handle: Fireworks Tragedy Overwhelms Hawaiʻi’s Medical System

More people needed specialized care for burns from the Salt Lake blast than from the Maui wildfires.

Honolulu Fireworks Blast Victims Are Identified Courtesy: Nick Wendrych

Honolulu Fireworks Blast Victims Are Identified

UPDATES: The medical examiner’s office released the names for two of the three women killed and a 20-year-old who died in a separate fireworks incident.

Will Tragedy Change How Hawaiʻi Polices Illegal Fireworks? David Croxford/Civil Beat/2025

Will Tragedy Change How Hawaiʻi Polices Illegal Fireworks?

A task force created to find and stop shipments has seized more than 100 tons of explosives — but no criminal charges have followed.

‘This Could Happen To Anybody,’ Says Man Who Was At Fatal Fireworks Party Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

‘This Could Happen To Anybody,’ Says Man Who Was At Fatal Fireworks Party

One Salt Lake resident offered a different description of what caused the explosion that killed 3 people.