A 10-year-old Laguna Hills boy is recovering in a hospital from severe injuries suffered when a firework exploded in his hand in San Juan Capistrano last week. Edther Ocampo and his 11-year-old brother, Dominic, were walking in a residential area along train tracks near Camino Capistrano to their grandmother’s home about 7:30 p.m.
, July 5, after a soccer practice at nearby Stone Field when along the route they found what they thought was an unused firework in an alleyway next to a line of garages, Ocampo’s mother, Cynthia Garcia said Thursday, July 11. They took the device to their grandmother’s home and found a lighter. Edther Ocampo was holding the device in his left hand when they lit the firework and it suddenly exploded, Garcia said.
The mother was on her way to pick up the boys when her sister called and told her something had happened and she needed to get there immediately, she said. “When I got there, my son was being brought from the area where it happened to the ambulance,” Garcia said. “He was bandaged up from his eyes.
That’s all I saw.” Edther Ocampo, 10, enjoys soccer and plays as a left wing and goalkeeper. (Courtesy of Cynthia Garcia) Edther Ocampo, 10, was hospitalized with severe injuries to his left hand, abdomen and face after a firework exploded in his hand in San Juan Capistrano, July 5.
(Courtesy of Cynthia Garcia) Edther Ocampo, left, along with his brother Dominic, and their mother, Cynthia Garcia (Courtesy of Cynthia Garcia) Edther Oc.
