VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A fireworks explosion sent two boys to the hospital late Sunday in Vancouver, Clark County deputies said.

Sheriff's Sgt. Shane Gardner said a 7-year-old boy went by ambulance to Southwest Washington Medical Center because of multiple shrapnel injuries, including one near his jugular vein. The family of the 7-year-old said the boy had surgery to remove the glass from his neck.

A 13-year-old boy was also taken to the same hospital by his parents for injuries caused by the same explosion.

Gardner said a group of boys placed two dozen sparklers in a long-neck glass bottle and left one sparkler protruding from the top of the bottle.

The bottle exploded after the single sparkler was lit, sending shards of glass flying on a residential street near Pacific Middle School. A neighbor told deputies that particles from the bottle could be heard hitting a nearby house after the explosion.

Chandler Revard, 13, said he and the three other boys -- ages 7, 10 and 13 -- had been setting off fireworks all evening and it was about 7:30 p.m. when someone suggested putting sparklers in a bottle.

Revard said he was standing in the middle of the street watching two boys put sparklers inside the beer bottle and set it off. He said he had no idea that the bottle would explode so quickly.

"There was no time -- only 2 seconds before it blew up," Revard said.

He said the explosion left him dazed.

"I didn't know what was going on. My ear was ringing. I looked down at my hand and blood was gushing from it. One kid was running off screaming," Revard said. "Don't mess around with fireworks, making your own bombs. They're not something to play with."

No one was cited in the case but it has been referred to the Clark County Prosecutor's Office.

2 Boys Hurt In Fireworks Explosion