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When Ben Shortreed and friends lit fireworks in his yard before the Fourth of July last year, a shell exploded in his left hand, causing damage so severe a surgeon had to amputate the hand that night.
Fireworks can be fun, but they are also very dangerous and should be handled with caution and care.
A neighbor who later searched in vain for Shortreedâs wedding ring found one of his fingers about 100 feet from the site of the blast.
âA harmless, low-key family day turned into a pretty life-changing event,â said Shortreed, 42, who lives in the town of Verona and is part owner of an insurance agency in Middleton.
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VERONA, Wis. – Wisconsin native Ben Shortreed is back to doing the things he enjoys, all while reflecting on the year that changed his life.
On June 27 2020, a casual night with friends turned into something more as the night went on.
“We were wrapping up just before nine when one of my friends said ‘Hey, I bought these fireworks today, do you mind if we light some off? ” Shortreed said. “I was like, ‘Sure, yeah, lets light some off.’ We lit off two fireworks, they were the prepackaged mortar tubes, the skyworks. He fired one, I fired one. Then he pulled out about a three-inch mortar ball. I said, ‘What do you do with this? I’ve never fired one before.’ He’s like, ‘Lets just put it in this tube here’. We loaded one of the tubes that we had just fired, walked it over, as I was placing it, lighting it, life changed.”