{"id":390866,"date":"2026-07-08T17:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390866\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T17:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T17:49:12","slug":"man-loses-hand-after-object-he-found-on-northern-california-beach-explodes-the-mercury-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/390866\/","title":{"rendered":"Man loses hand after object he found on Northern California beach explodes \u2013 The Mercury News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man cleaning up Fourth of July trash at a Northern California beach lost a hand when an object exploded as he picked it up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Image from GoFundMe page for Jason Turner, injured by an exploding object. (Family photo via GoFundMe)\" width=\"1200\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/jason-turner-gofundme.png\" data-attachment-id=\"12971120\" \/>Image from GoFundMe page for Jason Turner, injured by an exploding object. (Family photo via GoFundMe)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Emergency responders were called Sunday afternoon to Point St. George Beach, near Crescent City, the Del Norte County sheriff\u2019s office said. They found the man conscious with a severe injury to his left hand; he was taken to a hospital in Crescent City.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-jason-after-beach-accident\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">A GoFundMe campaign<\/a> identified the man as Jason Turner, from Klamath, and said the hand had to be amputated. It said he is the sole provider for his family, including two school-age children.<\/p>\n<p>His girlfriend, who was on the beach with him, was not injured.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/bayarea\/article\/crescent-city-man-firework-injury-22336655.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> that the item that exploded was believed to be a homemade firework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man cleaning up Fourth of July trash at a Northern California beach lost a hand when an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4846,1785,7,9,8,1531,138,181,100],"class_list":["post-390866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-accidents","tag-beaches","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-crashes-and-disasters","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}