AJ, give us a little background on you, your time with FIRE.

Yeah, so I've been with Bakersfield FIRE for 23 years now, coming up on 24.

One of the incredible things that I had the opportunity to do was back in 2000, what was it you guys? 2015.

We received a piece of the World Trade Center contract.

for Bakersfield to be stewards of, to put out there for people to come see, to learn about 9-11.

And so Jason and Derek and I and a few others, we were fortunate that we went back to New York We accepted the piece on behalf of the Bakersfield Fire Department and the city of Bakersfield.

And in over the year that we, or less than a year that we had, it arrived in Bakersfield in April of that year.

And when Jason

What are some of the tips that you guys have and what are some of the things you guys look for? This must be the busy time of the year for you.

It is.

July 4th is by far our busiest day of the year.

It's so busy that we're bringing back, we're overstaffing three engines, a couple light engines for wildland pieces of equipment.

So yeah, it is, we're gearing up for this time of year.

It's the busiest for us.

And you know what? I understand, like, I love fireworks myself.

You know, if you have one of these illegal fireworks, you could be facing some serious punishment as well, not only the danger side of things.