Fireworks incidents across Long Island on the Fourth of July left one man losing three fingers and an 11-year-old boy setting two homes on fire, authorities said.
An 8-year-old girl also suffered minor injuries when fireworks were fired during a gathering outside a home on Fox Rancourt in Port Jefferson around 10pm on Thursday, according to Suffolk County police.
Three other people were injured in the accident, according to authorities: a 30-year-old Selden man who lost a finger, and a 38-year-old Mount Sinai man who suffered serious leg injuries.
Police said two men suffered burns and a 30-year-old woman sustained minor injuries.
All four victims were taken to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment. Police said several vehicles parked on the lot were also damaged.
In a separate incident around 9:10 p.m., police said Ryan McCloskey, 21, was lighting fireworks at a party on Trouville Road in Copiague when the firework exploded in his hand.
Police said he lost three fingers on his left hand and injured the other two.
Authorities said McCloskey also suffered burns to one of his legs.
Officers applied a tourniquet to stop the bleeding, and McCloskey, of Eastchester, was later taken to Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip for treatment with serious but non-life-threatening injuries.
A Nassau County man was arrested early Thursday after he gave fireworks to an 11-year-old boy, who ignited them and started a fire that spread to two homes, police said.
Nassau County police said Karamjit Singh, 33, gave a firework to a boy in his early teens around 8:50 a.m. on Red Maple Drive North in Levittown and asked him to light it, but the firework was malfunctioning.
Police said an outbuilding in the garden then became engulfed in flames.
Police said the fire spread to Singh’s house as well as his neighbour’s house.
No one was injured in either home, but residents on the second floor of Singh’s house were forced to evacuate due to extensive damage, police said.
Singh was charged with two counts of fourth-degree arson, second-degree manslaughter, illegal sale of fireworks to a person under the age of 18, illegal possession, use and explosion of fireworks and endangering the welfare of a child, authorities said.
The 11-year-old boy was placed in the custody of a family member.
The fire marshal is investigating the fire.
