The Fourth of July is about all things American: parades, cookouts, cold beer and of course, fireworks. Those pyrotechnics remain at the center of Independence Day, a holiday 247 years in the making.

The Fourth of July is a celebration of all things American with parades, backyard barbecues and the night sky lit up with fireworks.

Hundreds of protesters who spent the Fourth of July in downtown Los Angeles to rally against the immigration raids that have roiled the region and the surge in federal funding approved this week to keep them going.

Fox News national correspondent Jeff Paul reports that search is underway for seven people after a fireworks warehouse explosion in Esparto, California.

The company indicated that multiple people died in the incident three days before the Fourth of July, but officials have not issued a determination.

Federal investigators are cautiously searching the warehouse site because of the risk from unexploded materials.