An explosion in Honolulu caused by illegal aerial fireworks shooting into a crate with more fireworks killed three and critically injured 20, police said.

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

A fireworks-related incident in Hawaii has left two people dead and 22 injured, according to a local news report. The incident took place in Salt Lake-Aliamanu, a neighborhood near Honolulu, and Honolulu Emergency Medical Services have reached the scene, according to Hawaii News Now.

The New Year’s Day fireworks explosion has left the community grieving and frustrated, but will the tragedy change Hawaii’s complicated relationship with fireworks? “I don’t think it’s going to have a major change in the mentality of the people that pop fireworks,

At least two people have died and 22 more people have been injured in a fireworks-related incident in Hawaii in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

"I don't know why, but the smuggling of fireworks has not been historically, greatly investigated," defense attorney and former prosecutor Megan Kau said. "Something has to, something's got to be done in order to stop this.

Drone video captures a New Year's Eve fireworks explosion that killed three people and wounded more than 20 in a Honolulu neighborhood.

Honolulu mayor Rick Blangiardi said in a statement that the explosion was "caused by what appears to be illegal fireworks"

The incident, which occurred during a New Year's celebration, is raising questions about the risks fireworks pose, particularly in Hawaii.

Honolulu released names for two of three women who died in the New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion in Salt Lake but said the identity of the third victim has not been confirmed. The women were killed and more than two dozen other people seriously injured when fireworks exploded in a garage at 4144 Keaka Drive just after midnight.