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Five days after a “bomb-like device” exploded in his hand, Jason Turner is still being treated for his injuries at U.C. Davis Medical Center in Sacramento.

“Jason is doing well,” his girlfriend, Pamala Ganfield, told Redwood Voice Community News on Friday. “He had another surgery the day before yesterday (that) took about an inch more of his forearm.”


Ganfield and Turner were picking up spent fireworks at Point St. George at about 3 p.m. Sunday when he found what appeared to be a ball-shaped object with a nail sticking out of it. The item exploded when Turner picked it up. It sounded like a bomb, Ganfield said. Her boyfriend was on the ground bleeding.

_{Thumbnail photo: Jason Turner is at U.C. Davis Medical Center in Sacramento where he is being treated for injuries sustained after an object exploded in his hand at Point St. George on Sunday. | Photo courtesy of Pamala Ganfield}

A Del Norte County man is at a Sacramento hospital after a fireworks explosion on the beach at Point St. George led to the amputation of his left hand. 

Jason Turner was walking the beach with his girlfriend, Pamala Ganfield, on Sunday, putting a few spent fireworks into a pile when they saw a shiny object in the sand. Ganfield said it looked like a bouncy ball with an opening at the end and a nail sticking out of it.

“He went to pick it up — I told him no — and boom, that was it,” Ganfield told Redwood Voice Community News on Tuesday. “I couldn’t see. I couldn’t hear. It sounded like a bomb. I looked over and my boyfriend was on the ground bleeding and his hand was opened up like a banana.”