Family provides update on Dodgers fan who blew off part of hand with fireworks
Family members have launched a fundraising campaign to help the Los Angeles Dodgers fan who was badly injured while setting off fireworks to celebrate the team's World Series victory last week. Video of the incident, which was widely shared on social media, shows the fan lighting a firework in downtown L.A. only to have it [...]
Family members have launched a fundraising campaign to help the Los Angeles Dodgers fan who was badly injured while setting off fireworks to celebrate the team's World Series victory last week.
Video of the incident, which was widely shared on social media, shows the fan lighting a firework in downtown L.A. only to have it explode prematurely. He stumbles away from the scene, holding his left hand, the video shows.
The fan, identified only as “Kevin,” lost two fingers and also has suffered hearing loss, his sister shared on the GoFundMe campaign website.
“After watching the game, he decided to take a walk like many others, to watch the cars and bikes on the road doing tricks and what not. He made a huge mistake of lighting a firework that was handed to him by a stranger,” Gloria Nuno says. “So many people light fireworks but you never once think, this could happen to you. Unfortunately, it happened to my brother. A simple 2 second mistake that will now alter the rest of his life!! It could happen to anyone.”
"Kevin," the Dodgers fan who lost 2 fingers while setting off fireworks after the team won the World Series, is seen in a GoFundMe photo. Nov. 2024. 
Los Angeles, CA - October 30: Dodgers fans celebrate as fireworks go off as the Los Angeles Dodgers win against the New York Yankees in Game 5 of the World Series on Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA. (Michael Blackshire / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) 
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 31: A Metro bus bus burns as police clear the area during unruly Dodger fan celebrations in Echo Park after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees in Game 5 to win the World Series on October 31, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. The Dodgers plan to hold a victory parade on Friday. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) 
People carries out items from a ransacked Nike store after the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Yankees to win the baseball World Series Wednesday, Oct. 30, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope)
Nuno says her brother is a kind-hearted man who works “the oil fields” and recently started playing tennis. The family is raising money to help pay for a prosthetic.
“He will be in and out of several surgeries that involve reconstructing his entire hand along with skin grafting. I ask that you please keep him in prayer as if he was your brother and any donations will help towards the medical costs,” said Nuno.
The fireworks mishap was among a handful of isolated incidents that occurred during the city’s victory celebrations last Wednesday after the Dodgers recorded the final out to win Game 5 against the New York Yankees.
Street takeovers and illegal fireworks were widespread. Some fans in the Echo Park neighborhood tagged an L.A. Metro bus with graffiti before setting it on fire, and looters ransacked a Nike store in downtown L.A.
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