Hawaii authorities on Tuesday asked lawmakers for money to hire eight people and pay for a $2 million expansion of a forensic lab to crack down on the persistent rampant smuggling of illegal fireworks like those that killed four people and injured about 20 more at a Honolulu home on New Year’s Eve.

Trying to combat illegal fireworks has been an annual tradition for Hawaii lawmakers in recent years as household use of contraband pyrotechnics causes pervasive harm.

Six survivors of a massive fireworks explosion in Hawaii have been flown to Phoenix for treatment. This comes as we're learning a three-year-old boy died on Monday as a result of the blast, raising the death toll to four.