A 65-year-old Lengthy Island man was airlifted to a hospital with a critical groin damage after a firework went off in an East Patchogue residence.
The Suffolk County Police Division stated John Philpotts-Kerr was “severely injured” when the explosive “unexpectedly detonated in his lap, injuring his groin.”
The sufferer lived within the residence the place the explosion occurred late Sunday afternoon.
A medevac helicopter took Philpotts-Kerr to Stony Brook College Hospital “for remedy of great bodily accidents.”
No different accidents had been reported. Authorities are asking that anybody with details about the incident contact arson detectives. Native information website Higher Lengthy Island described Philpotts-Kerr’s residence as a “storage residence.”
Details about the form of explosive with which the sufferer was wounded was not reported. Police referred to as the incident a “firework accident.”
