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Couple whose gender-reveal party sparked the massive El Dorado fire sentenced

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The couple whose pyrotechnics during a gender-reveal party set off what came to be known as the massive El Dorado fire in San Bernardino County in 2020 was sentenced Friday after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors. The couple inadvertently started the 22,000-acre fire on a scorching hot day in a Yucaipa park with a … Read more

Father in gender-reveal that sparked fatal 2020 California wildfire has pleaded guilty

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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A man whose family’s gender reveal ceremony sparked a Southern California wildfire that killed a firefighter in 2020 has pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, prosecutors said Friday. The El Dorado Fire erupted on Sept. 5, 2020, when Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angelina Jimenez and their young children staged a … Read more