San Francisco Supervisor Alan Wong held a hearing Thursday to introduce an ordinance creating stronger penalties and enforcement of illegal fireworks use after the city saw numerous fires and what the San Francisco Fire Department called “significant” injuries over the Fourth of July weekend.

“This legislation comes before us just days after the Fourth of July, when San Francisco once again saw the real public safety impacts of illegal fireworks,” Wong said at a Board of Supervisors Public Safety and Neighborhood Services Committee meeting.

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.