SIMI VALLEY, Calif. – When a July Fourth fireworks display exploded and sent red and white bursts into spectators at a Southern California park, Paulina Mulkern saw shrapnel headed straight for her 4-year-old cousin.
Mulkern pushed the girl under a lawn chair, and then shielded her 7-year-old cousin with her body as scorching debris flew overhead.
“You feel the big old heat come right over your back,” she said Friday, still shaking as she recounted the explosion the night before that left her hospitalized with bruises and red marks on her back.
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