Maine State police are reporting a young man consuming alcohol and celebrating the Fourth of July, attempted to launch a firework off the top of his head.
A spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, Stephen McCausland, says 22-year-old Devon Staples of Calais had been setting off fireworks with friends on Saturday night in the backyard of a friend’s home. Mr. McCausland says Staples put a fireworks mortar tube on his head and set it off, injuring his head. He died instantly.
This marks Maine’s first fireworks fatality since the state legalized fireworks several years ago.
Man Dies After Trying To Launch Firework Off Head
Police says the friends were drinking together.
SOURCE: CBS NEWS
