Gee, is this gonna go off? Let me look!

[MrVicchio]

MELVINDALE, Michigan (AP) -- A powerful firework exploded in the face of a woman trying to set it off, killing her as her fiance and 8-year-old son watched, police said.

Danialle Barse, 27, was unfamiliar with the commercial-grade aerial firework she was using Monday night, said Mike Welch, a police detective in this Detroit suburb.

"She basically killed herself in front her children and her fiance," Welch said.

Barse and another woman were trying to set off a 3-inch mortar bomb in the parking lot of the car wash where Barse worked when it went off as she had her head over it, Welch said.

One round hit the Lincoln Park woman, while the other 25 mortars continued to explode in sequence, keeping rescuers at bay, Welch said.

"The bombs were still going off as I ran up to try and drag her out of the way," witness Jason Dobrovalski told WDIV-TV. "But after I'd seen what had happened, I just ran back to try to save myself because it was too late."

No one at the car wash had permission for a fireworks display, Welch said. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was investigating where the commercial-grade fireworks came from.

Barse was also the mother of twin 2-year-old boys

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Let's break this situation down, if you watch the video, you see this particular device was commercial grade fireworks. I'm a pyro, I love to blow sh** up, but even I know better then to mess with this stuff.

Now let's take it further, the FUSE has been lit, the LAST thing you EVER EVER EVER do is go near an explosive device that has been lit. You hose the damn thing down, I don't care if it cost you $5,000 dollars, you DO NOT walk up to it. And the worst thing, EVER is to try to look into one of these.

I hope her children are well looked after, I hope who ever obtained this device pays for it, and I hope she felt nothing when it went off.


But this is kiddies, is why fireworks are not toys.