One of the six people severely injured in a Hawaii fireworks explosion and flown to Phoenix for treatment has died.
Arizona’s Maricopa County identified the latest fatality as Kevin Vallesteros, 29. Honolulu police said he died at approximately 6:40 a.m. HST. This raises the death toll in the Aliamanu fireworks explosion to five.
Another person has died as a result of a fireworks blast in Hawaii that left over 20 people dead or wounded, according to authorities.
Two GoFundMe pages named Kevin Vallesteros as the man who died on Jan. 28 while being treated in Phoenix for burns from a Hawaii fireworks explosion.
HPD confirms the fifth death connected to the Aliamanu fireworks explosion incident; a 29-year-old dies at an Arizona hospital on Tuesday, January 28, 2025.
This story has been updated to include the victim’s name. A 29-year-old man is the fifth person to die from the fireworks explosion in a Honolulu neighborhood on New Year’s Eve. The man, identified by Maricopa County officials as 29-year-old Kevin Vallesteros,
officials from the Arizona Burn Center – Valleywise Health said Friday at a press conference. The six are in their 20s and 30s and were injured in a New Year's Eve firework explosion in Honolulu that that left four people dead, including a 3-year-old boy.
A 29-year-old man who died nearly a month after sustaining serious burns was among six victims recovering at the Arizona Burn Center.
A 29-year-old man died from his injuries after he was one of six people flown to a hospital in Arizona for treatment earlier this month because Hawaii's only burn-care facility hit capacity
A 29-year-old man who suffered severe burns from a NYE fireworks explosion in Honolulu has died. He was being treated at the Arizona Burn Center.
A fifth person has died from injuries suffered during a massive explosion of illegal fireworks at a Honolulu home over New Year’s