Holiday starts with near drownings, maiming in Suffolk
Quick ReadA man lighting fireworks blew off his arm at a party in Islip Terrace, police said.
Photo credit: Danielle Finkelstein | Investigators are show at the scene of a fireworks accident in which an unidentified male lost his arm during a July 4th party on Fairview Ave. in Islip Terrace. (July 3, 2010)
Drownings, near-drownings and water incidents
Fireworks accident Islip Terrace
The Independence Day weekend got off to a dangerous start Saturday in Suffolk, where a toddler and a man nearly drowned in Selden and Ronkonkoma and a man had his arm blown off by illegal fireworks in Islip Terrace.
Doctors last night were working to reattach Eric Smith's left arm, Suffolk police said. Smith, 36, was shooting mortars from a 3-foot metal tube in the street in front of his Fairview...
