{"id":108721,"date":"2026-01-02T19:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108721\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:56:14","slug":"18-year-old-dead-after-accident-while-shooting-fireworks-on-new-years-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/108721\/","title":{"rendered":"18 year old dead after accident while shooting fireworks on New Year\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; An 18 year old is dead after an accident while handling fireworks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lubbock police said a caller reported that someone was injured while shooting fireworks in the area of N. Ulrich Ave. and Dartmouth St. around 7:21 p.m. on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to LPD, an 18-year-old male was seriously injured when a firework he was holding exploded near his head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officer immediately began life-saving measures until paramedics arrived. However, he was later pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">LPD said after its initial investigation that he was shooting fireworks in the street with his friends and family.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; An 18 year old is dead after an accident while handling fireworks. Lubbock police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106317,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[13723,6063,630,47327,48835,168,170,169,46399,223,3961],"class_list":{"0":"post-108721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-13723","9":"tag-accident","10":"tag-fire","11":"tag-firework","12":"tag-handling","13":"tag-lubbock","14":"tag-lubbock-headlines","15":"tag-lubbock-news","16":"tag-new-years-day","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-safety"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}