When someone lit a sparkler bomb at a July 4 party, Auburn resident Ryli Baumgartner rushed to move the firework away from two young kids nearby.
AUBURN, Wash. — A 19-year-old lost his right hand in a fireworks accident on the Fourth of July trying to prevent two young children from getting hurt.
“I was one of those horror stories that I was always told about, ‘Stay away from the fireworks, you’ll blow your hand off.’ Quite literally that exactly happened,” said Ryli Baumgartner.
Baumgartner’s story is different. He was at a family friend’s Fourth of July celebration where fireworks were being set off.
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