An NYC Parks Department employee was arrested late Tuesday in connection with a fireworks incident that cost a 10-year-old girl some fingers on Staten Island earlier in the day, according to officials and a neighbor.<\/p>\n
The 24-year-old employee was on duty at the time of the 6:45 p.m. accident in General Douglas MacArthur Park in Midland Beach, officials say.<\/p>\n
The exact circumstances of the case weren’t immediately clear, but reports indicated the girl may have found the firework in a public restroom, and that the city employee may have helped the child light the explosive. <\/p>\n
Police said her hand was mangled. It wasn’t clear how many fingers the girl lost. <\/p>\n
She remained hospitalized as of early Wednesday afternoon, a neighbor who knows her and her mom said. According to the neighbor, a men’s baseball team who played on the park’s field Monday night allegedly lit fireworks. That’s how the little girl found the discarded one, she says.<\/p>\n
For context, all consumer fireworks — sparklers, firecrackers, bottle rockets — are banned in every park across the five boroughs. Having, using, or lighting them in a park can result in tickets, fines up to $1,000, or charges.<\/p>\n
The parks worker is charged with child endangerment and reckless endangerment.<\/p>\n
The parks department couldn’t immediately be reached for comment Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An NYC Parks Department employee was arrested late Tuesday in connection with a fireworks incident that cost a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":319585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63,134],"class_list":["post-319642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319642","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=319642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/319642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=319642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=319642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=319642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}