California Fire Is Latest Gender Reveal To Go Disastrously Wrong

 A smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used at a gender reveal party started the El Dorado fire in California's San Bernardino County this weekend, local fire department officials said in a statement Monday: it's not the only gender reveal to start a fire or cause other chaos. Here are other gender-revealing stunts that have gone terribly wrong.

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San Miguel County firefighters fight a fire in Jamul, California on September 6, 2020. GETTY IMAGES

CHRONOLOGY

April 2017dennis Dickey started a 47,000-acre wildfire in Arizona that cost más 8.2 million for more than 800 firefighters to extinguish after firing a target containing an explosive substance intended to reveal blue or pink dust, according to the Arizona Daily Star.

April 2017A couple in Iowa fired a gun at a gender reveal set they purchased that was filled with an explosive intended to reveal colored dust, but the explosion reverberated and shook homes more than two miles away, the fire department said.

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April 2018A car in Australia was engulfed in flames after the driver attempted a "burnout" trick aimed at releasing blue smoke, according to The Washington Post.

September 2019a pilot dumped 350 gallons of pink water from a plane flying at low altitude for a gender reveal in Texas, but the plane flew "too slow" and stalled, causing it to crash, according to the National Transportation Safety Board report.

October 2019pamela Kreimeyer, then 56, was killed in Iowa after being hit in the head by a metal piece of an explosive device that relatives built, with the intention of throwing colored dust, but essentially functioned as a pipe bomb, according to the Des Moines Register.

CHIEF CRITIC

Jenna Karvunidis, a blogger known for popularizing gender reveal parties in 2008 when she and her husband cut a cake to reveal pink icing, condemned the people who started the recent fire in a Facebook post. "The fire that evacuated parts of California is from a gender reveal party," he wrote Monday. "Arrest him. Stop having these est?order parties.Last July, she shared that her views on gender-revealing parts have completely changed, echoing what some critics have said. "Who cares what gender the baby is? I did it at the time because we didn't live in 2019 and didn't know what we knew now: assigning a focus on gender at birth sets aside much of its potential and talents, " she wrote in a popular Facebook post that has been shared more than 14,000 times.

LARGE NUMBER

Of 8,600 hectares. That's how far the El Dorado fire had spread as of Monday morning's latest update, San Bernadino National Forest officials tweeted. Only 7% was contained at that time.

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