Fireworks explosion kills three women on Oahu

[Patricia]

Polynesians established themselves on the Hawaiian Islands approx. 1600 years ago. They did not gain access to gunpowder until the 18th century...

It is probable that along with gunpowder, western colonizers and the Chinese may have brought pyrotechnics with them to Hawaii. So, while the origins of fireworks may be well over a thousand years past, their introduction into Hawaiian culture is historically recent.

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