July 4 has always been a holiday of fun from picnics, cookouts, family reunions, festivals to splashy fireworks. Especially fireworks. Those kaleidoscopic dances of color and light have delighted us since childhood and bring out the kid in all of us.

That is probably why we all forget that fireworks, while beautiful and fun, can also be deadly.

It was be two years ago this July 5 when Leo and Betty Sayre, a Proctorville couple in their 70s, died in a house fire authorities have attributed to fireworks. Not the kind that cities put on for July 4, but aerial fireworks that an individual or a group of people illegally set off. Although vendors in Ohio are allowed to sell them, these kind of fireworks cannot be legally discharged in the state.

Authorities believe that hot embers from the fireworks landed on the house, starting the fire. When it happened, Leo went outside to see what was going on. When he discovered the fire, he rushed back into the house to try to save his wife. Neither survived the blaze.

According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission reported in Newsweek’s online edition, there are, on average, more than 200 fireworks-related injuries that happen during the July 4 holiday. In 2014, nine of those turned deadly.

The reason for most of those accidents comes from simple carelessness and not appreciating the amount of respect fireworks deserve.

Naturally, consideration should be paramount and one should not set off fireworks, especially the aerial kind past a reasonable time of night and not aimed at the roofs of neighbors’ home. But more than that care and caution should guide those setting them off this holiday, and every other, so tragic accidents don’t occur.