Here’s how Southern California fire and police departments prepared for and responded to one of the busiest days of the year.

Fireworks are not harmless. Each year they cause thousands of fires, send children to emergency rooms with burns and blast ...

In San Luis Obispo, it’s the Mission. In Atascadero, the City Hall Rotunda Building. In Arroyo Grande, the Swinging Bridge.

A fundraiser has raised thousands for the family of a girl who was killed in what authorities described as the misfiring of ...

“Laguna Beach police detectives took a 13-year-old boy into custody on suspicion of committing felony reckless burning of ...

A Fourth of July celebration resulted in tragedy when police say an illegal batch of fireworks "began misfiring" and struck a ...

An 8-year-old Calif. girl tragically died on the Fourth of July in an incident involving illegal fireworks.

A Buena Park man arrested in connection with the fireworks-related death of an 8-year-old girl on the Fourth of July has been identified. Officers with the Buena Park Police Department ...

Illegal fireworks sparked 80 fires across Bakersfield on the Fourth of July, with crews responding to one every five minutes.

An 8-year-old girl who was killed during an illegal July Fourth fireworks display at a neighborhood in Buena Park was ...

An 8-year-old girl died in Buena Park due to a fireworks mishap on July 4th; an investigation revealed the use of illegal ...

Jasmine Nguyen of Anaheim was killed when a "large illegal fireworks display" in a residential neighborhood went awry in Buena Park, police said.