Man named locally as Floyd Temple said to be putting on show for neighborhood children when accident occurred.
ByA man has been killed in an accident while setting off fireworks outside his home in Toledo, Ohio.
Police say the 61-year-old man, named locally as Floyd Temple, was lighting fireworks for neighborhood children when a mortar tipped over and hit him in the chest.Neighbors said some of the children he was setting off the fireworks for witnessed the tragic accident. "He tried to fire off a rocket that goes up into the sky and it backfired and took his chest off," Benjamin Avalos, a friend of the victim,"It went off and his chest exploded, and [the children] ran over to my house and told me about it. That's when police showed up," added neighbor Rick Tuggle."They were sitting over there. They're probably traumatized right now... They were sitting right there on the stairs when it happened.
Sterling Rahe, spokesperson for the Toledo Fire & Rescue Department, warned others about the dangers of fireworks ahead of the Fourth of July celebrations. "They saw this happen and again it could've been a lot worse with those kids running around when you think about the Fourth of July and having fun and enjoying the time. We want people to do that, but this again is an example of what can go wrong when we talk about fireworks," heUnder Ohio state law, it is legal to purchase fireworks
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