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I read a article in the newspaper about fireworks. "At fireworks shed, pops, then booms, 'like a cannon'.
An explosion at a firework manufacturing building in a rural Dodge county, a man was seriously burned. This was twelve years after another explosion occurred in a firework factory he owned that killed a woman. Harrison Freeman, seventy-two years old, was taken by a helicopter to the burn unit at Regions Hospital in St. Paul. He was in critical condition and the only person in the fireworks building. Neighbors did not realize what happened because they were used to hearing crackling noises and loud sounds coming from the shed in Ripley Township, about fifteen miles from Owatonna. Freeman's next door neighbor, Sid Schroeder, heard the loud bangs and booms and her husband, Kerry, was outside getting ready to go hunting when the explosion blew him right off his feet. Freeman turned out to be fine.