AKIPRESS.COM - At least 22 people were killed and 40 injured Thursday when explosions ripped through several fireworks factories in a Mexican town that has a long history of deadly blasts, Latimes reports.

The explosions occurred in Tultepec, a town in Mexico state known as the country’s pyrotechnic capital and the site of a blast that claimed 42 lives in 2016. Several manufacturers were killed Thursday, authorities said, along with at least four firefighters and two police officers who rushed to the scene to help.

In a rare step, a state official vowed to review the town’s fireworks industry to determine whether a temporary closure of some factories was necessary.

Alejandro Ozuna Rivero, a top Mexico state official, told Reforma newspaper that the state would conduct an “exhaustive review of all permits and the way they are being granted. ” Deadly explosions occur with regularity in Tultepec, where many residents earn a living fabricating and selling fireworks, an essential part of holiday celebrations in Mexico and across Latin America. In June, seven people were killed in an explosion in the town. The 2016 blast resulted in a massive fire in the town’s main fireworks market. Similar fires engulfed the same market in 2005 and 2006.