{"id":319535,"date":"2026-08-12T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319535\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:14:11","slug":"10-year-old-staten-island-girl-injured-in-fireworks-accident-parks-department-employee-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/319535\/","title":{"rendered":"10-year-old Staten Island girl injured in fireworks accident, Parks Department employee arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 10-year-old girl on Staten Island was injured in a fireworks accident Tuesday night, and now a New York City Parks Department employee is under arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It happened at around 6:45 p.m. Tuesday at Gen. Douglas MacArthur Park in the Midland section of Staten Island.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Police said the girl asked Parks employee Joshua Moe, 24, for a lighter, and he gave her one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/staten-island-fireworks-wcbsippy-hi-res-still-00-00-2622.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"staten-island-fireworks-wcbsippy-hi-res-still-00-00-2622.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Cleanup crews on the scene of Gen. Douglas MacArthur Park on Staten Island after a 10-year-old girl was injured in a fireworks accident.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News New York<\/p>\n<p>She suffered an injury to her left hand and was taken to the hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Moe was arrested and charged with endangering the welfare of a child and reckless endangerment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Parks Department said it will investigate the matter internally.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n          More from CBS News\n        <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 10-year-old girl on Staten Island was injured in a fireworks accident Tuesday night, and now a New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319536,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[8406,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-319535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-fireworks","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=319535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}