Cops: Man had 10 beers, blew up house
`A 38-year-old suburban man allegedly admitted to police he drank 10 beers before lighting a commercial firework inside his home, blowing up the house and seriously burning himself and a female companion.
“When you see these in public settings, they’re 30, 40, 50 feet across at the top,” Pat Barry, spokesman for the Will County sheriff’s department, said of the firework the man allegedly set off. “Imagine this going off in a room that’s about 8 by 8,” Barry said.’
