News 18 has shared West Lafayette Firefighter Curtis Shidler’s story before. How he lost his eye playing with fireworks while off-duty. It’s a safety story worth telling every summer, but a recent reunion makes it news you have not yet heard.
Fireworks should go up in the air.
“This is where the fireworks should have happened,” Shidler said while high up on a fire engine ladder. “But I stopped it with my face.”
Shidler has a good sense of humor about it.
“And that’s how you do it with one eye, right there,” he said as he brought the ladder down.
Two years ago, Shidler lost an eye in a fireworks accident.