A family who took responsibility for a fireworks accident in Graham last July says they faced massive backlash that led them to move out of the neighborhood.
On July 4, 2016, then 13-year-old Ryan Skog was setting off fireworks in his backyard with his mother’s supervision, when a mortar tipped over and fired over his neighbor’s fence. It went into her shrubbery, quickly setting the neighbor’s house ablaze.
“I ran and got my hose. Ryan ran to her house,” Rhiannon Skog said. “I kept spraying, but I couldn’t reach the flames.”