A New Year’s Eve firework display in a Hawaii neighborhood quickly went wrong after three people were killed and 20 injured on Tuesday night.   When fireworks were lit in a neighborhood in

Honolulu police said the explosion occurred after someone lit an “aerial cake” that fell to the side and rocketed into crates of additional caches of pyrotechnics, then erupted outward.

In recent years, occasions large and small — parties, Super Bowls, mixed-martial arts fights, even Thanksgiving — have provided a reason for residents across Hawaii to set off illegal fireworks. The increasingly sophisticated displays,

Three women were killed and about two dozen people injured at an Aliamanu home when a “cake bomb” filled with illegal aerial fireworks set off massive explosions at 12:01 a.m. at a large New Year’s Eve party.

Emergency crews arrived to a chaotic and gruesome scene in a Honolulu neighborhood after a New Year’s firework tipped over after being lit and ignited a fiery, shrapnel-studded blast.