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DES MOINES, Iowa — A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in a northern Iowa town, sending a fireball skidding down a street into a crowd of spectators and injuring 37 people, officials said Saturday.
Most of the people treated after the Friday night accident in Charles City suffered minor injuries, said city Fire Department spokesman Eric Whipple.
It appears there was a misfire involving 13 racks of fireworks tubes during the finale of the city-sponsored show, Assistant Fire Chief Dave Boehmer said Saturday. Officials didn’t yet know why the fireworks malfunctioned, Boehmer said.
