The Fourth of July is anything but celebratory in the Emergency Room. Every year, doctors amputate fingers and hands damaged by fireworks. They try to save eyes. And sometimes they have to deliver the ...

CHICAGO -- A barber who lost his hand in a fireworks accident in Chicago's Portage Park neighborhood only for part of it to be retrieved by a dog is issuing a warning to his neighbors. Cheri Steigert ...

Fireworks have been an essential part of Fourth of July celebrations since the United States declared its independence from Great Britain. (Founding father and eventual President John Adams made the ...

Wendy Szczepanski arrived at Neenah City Hall with a simple request for police and elected officials: Enforce the fireworks law that's already on the books. Szczepanski said her dog, a Cocker Spaniel ...

MANHASSET, Long Island (WABC) -- Two construction workers in Queens were trying to be good Samaritans and get illegal explosives out of the hands of kids when they blew up in their hands. The men ...

If there is a profile of those most likely to be hurt by fireworks, it's men older than 22, according to the fire marshal data. Most people suffered injuries affecting hands, eyes and faces as well as ...