Firework-related injuries at Harborview Medical Center jumped 65% compared to last year, with 86 people treated over the holiday.
KIRO fill-in host Mike Lewis said when he moved to Washington, he was shocked at the scale of fireworks available for sale.
“I moved up here in 2000, so it’s been a long time, but when I lived in California, when the fire danger was so critical, even back then, that fireworks, even the safe and sane type, were banned in virtually every county,” he said on “The Gee and Ursula Show” on KIRO Newsradio. “I don’t even know if there’s a county that you can get those anymore, but they also didn’t have the big industrial military-grade fireworks at the tribal reservations in California, and so when I got up here, I was stunned at the grade of fireworks that the average person can buy.”
Harborview preps for firework-related injuries
Mike said his friend is a former Harborview nurse who told him they prepped for the Fourth of July…