In April 2017 near Green Valley, Ariz., about 26 miles south of Tucson, an off-duty Border Patrol agent fired a rifle at a target filled with colored powder and Tannerite, a highly explosive substance, expecting to learn the gender of his child. One celebration sparked a wildfire in Arizona. It wasn’t even the first one to end in a wildfire.
The gender-reveal celebration that sparked the El Dorado fire wasn’t the first one to end in mayhem. “Could we just stop having these stupid parties and then the problem would solve itself?” she wrote on Twitter on Sept. 7 that she had ash on her house from another wildfire that was burning in the Angeles National Forest northeast of Los Angeles. Karvunidis, who lives in California, said in a telephone interview on Sept. Jenna Karvunidis has been credited with creating the gender-reveal party by hosting one for her firstborn in 2008 and sharing it on her blog, High Gloss and Sauce. “It’s a sense of connection, but it’s also a sense of that kind of competitive spectacle.” “As long as we have something like social media where a gender-reveal party is so visible - it’s all about the visual cues and all this performative aspect - you’re going to continue seeing that,” Dr. Simple versions of these celebrations often involve couples cutting open pink or blue cakes, or popping balloons filled with pink or blue confetti. Gender-reveal celebrations became popular about a decade ago as a way for new parents to learn the sex of their child, often in the presence of family and friends. 7, “but personally, I can only imagine how terrible they have to feel for a lot of reasons.” “I can’t speak on their behalf,” Captain Milloy said of the family on Sept. Cal Fire could also ask those responsible to reimburse the cost of fighting the fire, he added. It was just one of several fires that continued to burn out of control up and down California throughout the month, as extreme heat roasted much of the state during Labor Day weekend.Ĭriminal charges were being considered, but would not be filed before the fire is extinguished, Captain Milloy said. It was 66 percent contained, the authorities said. In February, a man in New York was killed when a device he was building for a gender-reveal party exploded.The fire continued to burn actively and had ballooned to more than 20,000 acres as of Sept. While no injuries were reported from this incident, some other recent gender-reveal parties have proven to be dangerous. The explosion was felt all the way in northern Massachusetts, CBS Boston reported. "I'm not upset because I have chalk or confetti blown in my way, I mean it was an explosion that rocked my house, my neighbors, my community and my town." "A gender-reveal that was heard not only throughout neighborhoods, but throughout many, many towns," Taglieri told the station. Her neighbor Sara Taglieri was appalled by the explosion, calling it "over the top." "It was really very strong."īouraphael told the station it shook her home's foundation and caused multiple cracks. "It was just a big boom and crack, it was very loud, it just shook my whole porch," resident Tina Bouraphael told CBS Boston. People who lived nearby the site in Kingston said they felt the blast. Investigators are still determining what charges may be filed against him. Police said the man who detonated the Tannerite turned himself in and is cooperating with authorities. "During the investigation, the detective was informed that the location, a quarry, was chosen as they felt it was a safe location to detonate the Tannerite." "A Kingston Police Detective met with individuals that were on site, who cooperated with the detective and informed him that they were having a gender-reveal party," police said in a statement. The boom was caused by an explosion of about 80 pounds of Tannerite, which police said is an over-the-counter "explosive target" used for firearms practice. The Kingston Police Department in Kingston said the blast happened at a quarry at Torromeo Industries earlier this week.
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A powerful explosion coming from a gender-reveal party rocked homes in New Hampshire, leaving at least one house with a crack in their foundation, CBS Boston reported.
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