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A woman who died in the New Year’s Eve fireworks explosion on Keaka Drive was identified Tuesday as 61-year-old Carmelita Benigno, according to the Honolulu Medical Examiner’s Office.

Officials previously said the other victims were 23-year-old Jennifer Van, 58-year-old Nelie Ibarra and 3-year-old Cassius Ramos-Benigno.

A neighbor, Keali’i Kaolulo, said Ibarra and Benigno were sisters.

The three woman died in the explosion, occurred shortly after midnight after an aerial cake lit by a New Year’s Eve reveler in the driveway of the Keaka Drive home tipped over and shot into two crates of unused cake fireworks. However, the Medical Examiner’s Office didn’t identify Benigno until Tuesday.

Ramos-Benigno was hospitalized and died Monday of his injuries. Some two dozen others also were seriously or critically injured in the blast, according to Honolulu police.

Six of the most severely hurt were flown to the Diane & Bruce Halle Arizona Burn Center in Phoenix on Saturday where they underwent surgery and are in stable condition, the center’s director told reporters on Monday. All six patients are expected to recover, but four of them will likely remain in drug-induced comas for weeks.

Kaolulo, who witnessed the explosion, said he loaded people with burned and blackened skin onto a flatbed handcart and wheeled them to Pākini Street where the Honolulu Emergency Services Department had staged a triage station. 

The explosion has sparked calls from many public officials, including Gov. Josh Green, for a stronger crackdown on illegal fireworks.

The City and County of Honolulu already bans all fireworks except firecrackers, but use of pyrotechnics is still extremely common, especially on holidays like New Year’s Eve and Fourth of July.

The state Department of Law Enforcement is hosting a fireworks amnesty event at Aloha Stadium on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. to collect unused fireworks from people with no questions asked.

“Recent events have clearly illustrated just how dangerous illegal fireworks can be,” Green said in a statement. “Out of respect to those we’ve lost in the Aliamanu incident, I am strongly encouraging everyone to take a pause on fireworks activities, and I am asking everyone with unused fireworks to please bring them to Aloha Stadium this Saturday.”