With fireworks tents popping up all around the metro area, it's a good time to remind Kansas City residents that these explosives are not allowed in the city limits. Celebrate our nation's birthday by going the safe route and watching a much more impressive public fireworks display instead. The below video shows what police do with fireworks we confiscate illegally from inside the city limits: our Bomb and Arson section detonates and burns them much like they do any other explosive because fireworks can be equally dangerous.