Man being treated for burns in Phoenix following NYE Honolulu fireworks explosion has died
His passing increased the death toll to five, AP confirmed.
Valleywise Health said during a press conference earlier in January that six people were flown from Honolulu to Phoenix to be treated at the Arizona Burn Center. The six were men and women in their 20s and 30s who had been placed into a medically induced coma.
Before the man's death, Dr. Kevin Foster, director of Arizona Burn Center, said the six patients were "all on course' to recovery and were 'exactly where we want them to be,' while noting they had a long way to go before they could be awakened.
It was not immediately clear how or why the man's condition deteriorated. A Valleywise spokesperson declined to speak on Tuesday about the man's death due to privacy concerns.
In a Jan. 1 news conference from the Honolulu Police Department, authorities said a person lit a firework "cake" containing around 50 individual aerial fireworks that somehow tipped over, shooting into other crates also filled with fireworks and resulting in the fatal explosion. Authorities estimated fireworks recovered at the scene cost tens of thousands of dollars.
Honolulu police posted on its Facebook page on Jan. 24 that it had arrested a man and a woman in connection with reckless endangering, endangering the welfare of a minor and multiple fireworks charges. The police department said more arrests were expected to come.
The department did not specify whether the pair would face more serious charges such as manslaughter.
This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Man dead after being flown to Phoenix following fireworks explosion
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