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.

Law enforcement efforts to stop the proliferation of illegal aerial fireworks in Hawaii have led to two no contest pleas and ...

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.

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.

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 ...

The five men were working to disassemble the fireworks, which included “cake fireworks” with multitube devices that they were cutting by hand, according to a final investigation report by the ...