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  • Man loses hand, fingers to firework

    06/27/2005 9:27:29 AM PDT · by BenLurkin · 64 replies · 1,457+ views
    Valley Press ^ | on Monday, June 27, 2005. | PAMELA L. PAINE
    LANCASTER - A man lost his left hand and the thumb and two fingers of his right hand to an exploding firework Sunday evening in the 3500 block of West Avenue K-13, according to Capt. John Haugh of Fire Station 134. Shannon Powers, 30, was injured about 7:30 p.m. The device, originally described as a firecracker, was much more than that, Haugh said. He described it as something large, adding of the man's injuries, "It was ugly." Haugh said Powers had "significant trauma as well as shrapnel injuries." Sgt. Greg McHenry of the Lancaster Sheriff's Station said Powers, who has...