The skies were full of illegal aerial fireworks overnight, said Capt. Kenison Tejada, fire department spokesman. But wet weather helped keep the number of incidents down, Tejada said.

"One of the things we're thankful for was that we had no building loss or major fires," Tejada said this morning. "It was kind of a good day."

There was only one serious burn case during the height of the New Year's revelry, about 12:10 a.m. today in Waimanalo, but the city's Emergency Services Division was not sure how the person who walked into the unit office was injured, said spokesman Bryan Cheplic. The person — not identified by age or sex — was taken to Castle Medical Center in serious but stable condition.

Paramedics treated two other burn victims, both young boys. Fireworks blew up in the hands of a 12-year-old Kalihi-Palama boy at 11:49 p.m. yesterday, and a 6-year-old boy burned his fingers in a 12:12 a.m. incident today in Pearl City, Cheplic said.

"It was busy, but it was much milder than last year," he said.

Firefighters responded to 33 fireworks-related calls on the last day of 2006, which was far less than the 60 fireworks-related calls they had on the last day of 2005.

Today's tally of 27 fireworks-related calls only went through 10 p.m.There were only eight of those calls for all of Jan. 1, 2006.