A crowd of revelers celebrated Independence Day with fireworks, food and fun at the Ramona July 4th Family Picnic & Fireworks Show. A group of seventh-graders from Olive Peirce Middle School were mostly anticipating spending time with their friends at the start of the event held at the back of their campus.

An illegal fireworks display on the Fourth of July resulted in the death of an 8-year-old girl, according to police in California The victim — identified as Jasmine Nguyen, per local reports — was pronounced dead in the hospital after suffering "critical injuries,