suwanna kerdkaew: qué bueno estar aquí con usted.

suwanna kerdkaew: yeah, that's correct. in 2014 there were--there was a case in sunnyvale where a gentleman had a couple of fingers taken off. in san jose in the same year three fingers from a san jose man, and unfortunately a young boy of 10 years old had part of his hand taken off. damian: and we do have some video that we've shot actually from one of the--above one of the hills, and, i mean, you're looking at the skyline of the bay area, and this is what you see constantly on the 4th of july. do you kinda sit back and cross your fingers, chief, when you see this and say, "i hope it's controlled"? john: what i always hope for is that if it's a public display that's actually permitted and licensed by the local fire department i'm pretty comfortable with it, but we still have to be careful about it. there's still safe zones. there's still things to be looked at. and from the flip side we also--you can see those images and realize those are just somebody in a neighborhood firin' 'em off, and that's what gives us such grave c

here to kind of explain some of those dangers for us is battalion chief suwanna kerdkaew and also chief john justice of the deputy fire chief of the santa clara county fire department. welcome to the show. well, i mean, let me kind of emphasize the importance of treating fireworks with the danger that they should. you couldn't carry this in, and i couldn't carry this in. we had to have somebody bring this in. talk about the--who brought those in and why that is.