{"id":8331,"date":"2023-11-06T05:31:50","date_gmt":"2023-11-05T16:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8331"},"modified":"2023-11-06T05:31:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-05T16:31:50","slug":"guy-fawkes-call-for-caution-after-fireworks-burn-womans-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=8331","title":{"rendered":"Guy Fawkes: Call for caution after fireworks burn woman&#8217;s arm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fireworks safety campaign group is reminding people to handle fireworks with care after at least\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rnz.co.nz\/news\/national\/501731\/speedway-fans-say-faulty-fireworks-at-waikaraka-park-landed-in-crowd-leaving-some-with-burns\">one person was burnt<\/a>\u00a0at a display Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>A video shows that the fireworks at the Waikaraka Speedway event in Onehunga, Auckland landed in the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>Event promoter Bruce Robertson said a woman was struck on the arm.<\/p>\n<p>It was a successful event with a crowd of about 6500 and many others parked on the streets to watch, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ban the Boom New Zealand spokesperson Alice Hayward said people should only be allowed to light fireworks on Guy Fawkes night.<\/p>\n<p>People should be aware that fireworks could cause fires, damage properties and injuries, she said.<\/p>\n<p>Hayward also hoped everyone would be safe tonight.<\/p>\n<p>ACC data shows children under 10 make up one-quarter of all fireworks-related claims each year.<\/p>\n<p>In the four years to 2022, the Accident Compensation Corporation accepted 1376 fireworks-related injury claims, at a cost of almost $3 million, of which 329 were for children under 10.<\/p>\n<p>ACC spokesperson James Whitaker said the injuries included burnt hands, fingers and eyes.<\/p>\n<p>Such injuries could be avoided if people were more mindful, he said.<\/p>\n<p>rnz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fireworks safety campaign group is reminding people to handle fireworks with care after at least\u00a0one person was burnt\u00a0at a display Saturday night. A video shows that the fireworks at the Waikaraka Speedway event in Onehunga, Auckland landed in the crowd. Event promoter Bruce Robertson said a woman was struck on the arm. It was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8333,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8331\/revisions\/8333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}