San Francisco Chronicle<\/a> that the office believed the roughly 6-inch-long object was a homemade firework. Authorities were informed of the explosion around 4 p.m. Sunday, and when they arrived they found Turner in a parking lot.<\/p>\nThe Sheriff\u2019s Office did not respond Wednesday to a request for comment from The Times.<\/p>\n
The 44-year-old was taken to Sutter Coast Hospital in Crescent City, Stevens told the Chronicle, and is now at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. <\/p>\n
In addition to losing his hand, Turner is experiencing vision and hearing loss, and it\u2019s unknown whether his senses will fully return.<\/p>\n
Ganfield said she wasn\u2019t hurt and is prioritizing Turner\u2019s recovery.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen everything calms down and slows down a little bit, I need to get my hearing checked out,\u201d Ganfield said.<\/p>\n
The oldest of Turner\u2019s five children, 24-year-old Ashley, has taken on more responsibility to help care for the family as her father recovers.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just been around-the-clock calls, around-the-clock updates. It just doesn\u2019t stop,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She added that she\u2019s grateful Ganfield was with her father at the time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just couldn\u2019t imagine being right there and watching that happen, and she saved his life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ganfield said there was a flash, similar to when a grenade goes off in a film.<\/p>\n
She went straight into action. She told The Times she remembers screaming and crying and being completely horrified. She also recalls Turner telling her he needed a tourniquet.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs he was literally saying that, I was ripping my shirt off because the blood was coming \u2014 like, just squirting out of his hand, like a bottle or something,\u201d Ganfield said. \u201cIt was so crazy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Turner\u2019s family members describe him as an extremely hardworking and selfless person. <\/p>\n
He is the provider for the family, and has two children in high school and a son studying mechanical engineering at Fresno City College whom he is supporting financially.<\/p>\n
Ashley Turner resides in Visalia, where she\u2019s working as a pharmacy technician.<\/p>\n
Although she lives on her own now, she recalls a very warm childhood and has fond memories of her dad doing everything in his power to make sure his loved ones were happy. He is the \u201crock\u201d of the family, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe didn\u2019t have the money to do stuff, but he made sure we did everything,\u201d she said. \u201cWe did all the sports we wanted to. We did all the fun stuff we wanted to. We had all the new stuff we wanted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Growing up, she said, the family celebrated the Fourth of July each year and would light fireworks in their yard. Now she\u2019s worried about what the future holds.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I have my kids, how is he gonna play with my kids?\u201d she said. \u201cIs he gonna be able to do the father-daughter dance without his arm?\u201d<\/p>\n
Jason Turner is a heavy-equipment operator and logger, and his family is unsure if he\u2019ll be able to go back to work.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s been working my whole life,\u201d Ashley Turner said. \u201cI\u2019ve never not seen him doing anything hard, and I don\u2019t know how he\u2019s now not gonna be able to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n
One of the most concerning things about the situation is that someone left such an explosive just lying around.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s no need to mess around with an illegal explosive,\u201d Turner said. \u201cThere is no need to leave it lying on the beach.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ganfield echoed the sentiment.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not even sure why somebody would leave something like that on the beach for somebody to find,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ashley Turner said the doctors had told her family that her father was recovering quickly and, with hope, would get to go home after two more surgeries.<\/p>\n
Though Ganfield said she\u2019s grateful his injuries weren\u2019t even more severe, the trauma is enough to last a lifetime.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe way his hand was open, it literally looked like it split open like a banana,\u201d Ganfield said. \u201cI am extremely thankful that he is here today because it could have been a lot worse.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was an ordinary day in Crescent City. Jason Turner and his girlfriend were taking a stroll on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":391483,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29003,7,9,34230,8,3409,7718,1431,6314,6277,157521,24710,157522,157523,157139,346,31703,8843],"class_list":["post-391482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-arm","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-man","tag-california-news","tag-child","tag-crescent-city","tag-family","tag-father","tag-fourth","tag-ganfield","tag-hand","tag-homemade-firework","tag-july-cleanup","tag-kyle-stevens","tag-office","tag-turner","tag-way"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391482","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=391482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391482\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/391483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}