So, what exactly is an aerial cake? Richard Meier, a fire and explosion investigator with expertise in fireworks, said an aerial firework generally is lit on the ground and explodes in the air.

More arrests have been made in the illegal firework explosion that took place in Aliamanu, Hawaii, on New Year's Eve, bringing the total to 10.

The owners of the Aliamanu home at 4144 Keaka Drive, where a stockpile of illegal aerials accidentally detonated at a New Year’s party killing six people, were arrested today on suspicion of fireworks ...

Police said the blasts occurred around midnight local time after an aerial cake firework — which is made up of multiple tubes — tipped over at a party and shot into other fireworks.

The number of fireworks-­related injuries in Hawaii has steadily risen over the past decade and a half, reaching a 15-year high over the latest New Year’s holiday, according to updated statistics from ...

In layman's terms, a fireworks "cake" — or a pack of 36 tubes that each shoot a projectile into the air — malfunctioned, causing some of the projectiles to shoot into the crowd. Initially ...

the fireworks that spray sparks straight from the top of their cone- and tube-shaped bodies. Fountains are dirt cheap and they maximize your display time. “The average cake”—big boxes that ...