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  • Woman Hospitalized After Lighting Dynamite Rather Than Candle (Not Florida - this time)

    09/07/2018 12:24:24 PM PDT · by Responsibility2nd · 37 replies
    NBC CT ^ | 09/07/2018
    A 30-year-old Connecticut woman severely injured her hand and her face when she lit a quarter stick of dynamite that she mistook for a candle after thunderstorms knocked out power Thursday night. Police said the woman was injured around 9:20 p.m. at the family’s Lindley Street home in Bridgeport and her husband and two children were home when the horrific accident happened. Police have investigated and said the family had intended to buy emergency lighting from Home Depot, but the store was closed, according to police. Then, they remembered seeing something in the basement that they thought were candles. The...