Downloadable Video: Interviews with fireworks-injury patient, UW Medicine trauma specialist

SEATTLE, July 3, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kurtis Musewicz's experience presents a fireworks caution.  On June 23, 2017, with friends in Tacoma's "Firecracker Alley," the teen found a discarded unexploded shell, lit the fuse and suffered severe injuries, including the loss of four fingers on his left hand. He received emergency care at UW Medicine/Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.

Web and broadcast video assets can be downloaded from this Google Drive folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B81eoU9Gvp9eX21LNEprSC0xZ0U?usp=sharing 
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The content includes:

• an interview with Mr. Musewicz
• b-roll footage of Tacoma's "Firecracker Alley," where the injury occurred
• comments from injury-prevention specialist Dr. Monica Vavilala about recent UW Medicine research on the outsize danger of mortar-and-shell fireworks.

NOTE: Mr. Musewicz's comments are being made available on video as he has been discharged from Harborview Medical Center.

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SOURCE UW Medicine