MOSES LAKE, Wash. — Two people in Moses Lake were injured by fireworks in separate incidents over the holiday weekend, according to the Grant County Sheriff’s Office.
In a Facebook post Tuesday morning, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office said a man in his 40s was injured Sunday and a 15-year-old boy was injured early Tuesday morning.
The man in his 40s severely damaged his hand at the Moses Lake Sand Dunes when fireworks he was handling detonated, the sheriff’s office wrote. He was flown to a Spokane hospital for treatment.
The 15-year-old boy also severely damaged his hand and sustained other injuries when a modified consumer firework detonated. He was flown to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle for treatment.
