This might be a stooge death. My personal experience with drinking and dangerous stunts is that most young guys, if drunk enough, really believe that the stunts and sound effects the Three Stooges and their stunt doubles achieved are replicable, and w/o risk of serious injury or death.
Latest I read is that the decedent heldd a lighter too close to the wick (?) of the firework and it ignited unintentionally. Still foolish even if it went that way. RIP.