September 08, 2020

Anna Murray 

As U.S. record of 2 million acres has been ruined in 2020 by wildfires in California, most recently, a fire has burned more than 10,000 acres in El Dorado Ranch Park in Yucaipa, about 70 miles east of Los Angeles. On September 5 a couple shared the news of their unborn baby’s sex gender by setting off a smoke-generating pyrotechnic device at their celebrating party in the morning.

According to California’s fire officials, as of the morning of September 8, the El Dorado fire in southern California's San Bernardino County has scorched 10,574 acres and was 16% contained. It was one of the most dangerous fires in the region.

As the pyrotechnic device was ignited during the gender reveal party, the dry wild grasses, sometimes grown as tall as 4 feet in the meadow at El Dorado Ranch Park, soon exploded to a massive fire in the Sierra Nevada mountains and forced reportedly more than 20,000 people to evacuate.

The erroneous gender-reveal gimmick is not the first to spark a costly blaze. A similar droll in 2017 sparked a 47,000-acre wildfire in the foothills of Santa Rita Mountains in southern Arizona. Another gender-reveal mischief set off a bushfire in Florida in 2019. 

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