MELVINDALE, Mich. (July 3) - A powerful firework exploded in the face of a woman trying to set it off, killing her as her fiance and 8-year-old son watched, police said.

Danialle Barse, 27, was unfamiliar with the commercial-grade aerial firework she was using Monday night, said Mike Welch, a police detective in this Detroit suburb.

"She basically killed herself in front her children and her fiance," Welch said.

Barse and another woman were trying to set off a 3-inch mortar bomb in the parking lot of the car wash where Barse worked when it went off as she had her head over it, Welch said.

One round hit the Lincoln Park woman, while the other 25 mortars continued to explode in sequence, keeping rescuers at bay, Welch said.

"The bombs were still going off as I ran up to try and drag her out of the way," witness Jason Dobrovalski told WDIV-TV. "But after I'd seen what had happened, I just ran back to try to save myself because it was too late."

No one at the car wash had permission for a fireworks display, Welch said. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was investigating where the commercial-grade fireworks came from.

Barse was also the mother of twin 2-year-old boys.



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Darwin Award finalist.

Her face probably looks like the chick in the Halloween accident on the Alton Parkway.

You can read about that here

Another one:

"Springfield boy, 4, killed in fireworks incident
Posted by The Oregonian July 04, 2007 15:55PM

A 4-year-old boy Springfield died this morning after he apparently set off fireworks stored in his father's bedroom closet, police said.

Investigators believe Caleb Freeman crawled into the upstairs closet about 6:45 a.m. and lit the fireworks as his father slept, said Springfield police Sgt. Mike McCarthy. The sound of the fireworks going off awoke the boy's father, who initially fled the two-story duplex in the 900 block of North Cloverleaf Loop with seven other occupants, police said.

When they realized the boy was still inside, the father and at least two of the other occupants rushed back inside to try to rescue him, McCarthy said. "It appears the boy may have become trapped in the closet," he said. "He was located in the back of the closet deceased."

Two people suffered burns to their hands and legs attempting get to get to the boy, McCarthy said. Paramedics treated the burn victims at the scene, authorities said."

I want to give Wankus some fireworks to play with.