Maui police recently seized 107 pounds of aerial fireworks, 95 mortar shells and 40,610 firecrackers that were being shipped from the Mainland to Maui through the U.S. Postal Service. In the boxes ...

In a multi-break firework, stars are contained in separate cardboard compartments within the shell. Each compartment has its own bursting charge, which ignites and throws out the stars.

Witnesses said he’d been lighting a mortar firework, which is a shell firework put into a tube and fired off, when it exploded early in his hands. He suffered injuries to his head and hands ...

After a further search, officers found 20 expended and 24 unexpended fireworks mortars. Detectives with the Regional Explosives Unit took possession of the unexpended fireworks. No arrests were made.