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For years the City of Naples has put on a big fireworks show each Fourth of July. This is a look at how the city prepares for the annual show

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Kent Stoner II, center, background, an employee with Zambelli Fireworks Internationale, helps set up 1,248 shell that will hold fireworks to be set off at the Naples Pier on the Fourth of July. The festivities begin at 9 p.m., last about 30 minutes and costs the city about $30,000. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
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Kent Stoner, from left, calls out the order in which 1,248 shells are set up to fellow Zambelli Fireworks Internationale employees Claude "Tex" Ramsey, Scott Ryon and Kent Stoner, II, at the end of the pier Thursday afternoon in preparation for the Fourth of July show. The festivities begin at 9 p.m., last about 30 minutes and costs the city about $30,000. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
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Employees with Zambelli Fireworks Internationale, set up 1,248 shell that will hold fireworks to be set off at the Naples Pier on the Fourth of July. The festivities begin at 9 p.m., last about 30 minutes and costs the city about $30,000. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
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Employees with Zambelli Fireworks Internationale, set up 1,248 shell that will hold fireworks to be set off at the Naples Pier on the Fourth of July. The festivities begin at 9 p.m., last about 30 minutes and costs the city about $30,000. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
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Employees with Zambelli Fireworks Internationale, set up 1,248 shell that will hold fireworks to be set off at the Naples Pier on the Fourth of July. The festivities begin at 9 p.m., last about 30 minutes and costs the city about $30,000. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
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Employees with Zambelli Fireworks Internationale, set up 1,248 shell that will hold fireworks to be set off at the Naples Pier on the Fourth of July. The festivities begin at 9 p.m., last about 30 minutes and costs the city about $30,000. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
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Employees with Zambelli Fireworks Internationale, set up 1,248 shell that will hold fireworks to be set off at the Naples Pier on the Fourth of July. The festivities begin at 9 p.m., last about 30 minutes and costs the city about $30,000. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
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Employees with Zambelli Fireworks Internationale, set up 1,248 shell that will hold fireworks to be set off at the Naples Pier on the Fourth of July. The festivities begin at 9 p.m., last about 30 minutes and costs the city about $30,000. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
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Employees with Zambelli Fireworks Internationale, set up 1,248 shell that will hold fireworks to be set off at the Naples Pier on the Fourth of July. The festivities begin at 9 p.m., last about 30 minutes and costs the city about $30,000. Lexey Swall-Bobay/Staff
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