The ceremony of the last Wednesday in our country almost always had resulted in severe burn injuries and severe traumatic patients and requires great and careful attention. We surveyed the epidemiology and outcome of these patients during 16 years. Retrospectively we surveyed the data of fireworks burn patients in the ceremony of last Wednesday of the year during 16 years from march 1998 to march 2014. We had 987 out –patients and 102 in-patients. 922 (84.6%) patients were male and 167 (15.3%) were female. The most frequent age group was young adolescence and young adults. The most prevalent site of injury were hand, head and face, trunk and lower extremity. During following years 41% cases came for reconstructive surgery of burn injuries. Among them patients need 1 to 11 sessions of reconstructive surgery. Three cases had blindness and 7 cases died. one of them died due to explosion trauma. Fireworks burns are severe, deep and required several sessions of treatments for burn itself and for complications. Multi media training and special educational programs are needed for prevention of such injuries.
 

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