This happened in my town
I didn't really know him but some of my friends did, and the story is being misrepresented by the media from what I've heard. He wasn't actually trying to light them from his head, he was pretending to and made a dumb mistake. I feel awful for the family, the comments have been so vicious online and off.
That's why they shouldn't have made fireworks legal here... it was a five-hour drive to New Hampshire to even get them and even if you got them, there was a pretty good chance the police would get them once the complaints started coming in. I even had my sparklers confiscated when I was a kid at the fourth once ffs, and now they let any old hick essentially play with bombs?