A New Year’s Eve firework display in a Hawaii neighborhood quickly went wrong after three people were killed and 20 injured on Tuesday night.   When fireworks were lit in a neighborhood in

Honolulu police said the explosion occurred after someone lit an “aerial cake” that fell to the side and rocketed into crates of additional caches of pyrotechnics, then erupted outward.

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 off illegal fireworks. The increasingly sophisticated displays,

Authorities say three people died and 20 others were injured in a New Year’s fireworks explosion in a Honolulu-area neighborhood. Officials said the accident happened around midnight when a lit bundle of mortar-style fireworks tipped over and fired into crates containing other fireworks that exploded.