A 29-year-old man injured Jan. 1 when a cache of illegal aerial fireworks detonated in Honolulu died at a hospital in Arizona Tuesday morning.

A fifth person has died from injuries suffered during a massive explosion of illegal fireworks at a Honolulu home over New Year's, police said Tuesday. The 29-year-old man 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 with other patients

A fifth person has died from injuries suffered during a massive explosion of illegal fireworks at a Honolulu home over New Year’s.

The illegal firework explosion that took place in Aliamanu, Hawaii, also known as Salt Lake, has left five people dead and two arrested.

Another person has died as a result of a fireworks blast in Hawaii that left over 20 people dead or wounded, according to authorities.

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.

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.

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,

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.

One of the six people severely injured in a Hawaii fireworks explosion and flown to Phoenix for treatment has died.

A 29-year-old man who died nearly a month after sustaining serious burns was among six victims recovering at the Arizona Burn Center.