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First Published: 3:14 PM PDT, July 21, 2021
The California wildfire that took over a month to put out in 2020. The couple who authorities say had a gender reveal party that sparked the blaze are being charged with involuntary manslaughter in addition to other charges.
The couple whose gender reveal party was determined to be the reason a massive fire in California was sparked last year have been charged in the death of a firefighters who was killed in the blaze, officials said.
Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez staged a gender reveal party in El Dorado Ranch Park in Yucaipa, at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains in September 2020.
Couple charged with involuntary manslaughter in Southern California fire sparked by gender reveal Martin Estacio, Palm Springs Desert Sun
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PALM SPRING, Calif. The couple who used a smoke bomb at a gender reveal ceremony and sparked Southern California s El Dorado wildfire that killed a firefighter last year has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and 29 other crimes, authorities announced Tuesday.
Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez pleaded not guilty Tuesday, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson announced at a news conference.
“That’s the only reason he was there,” he added.
The El Dorado Fire erupted on Sept. 5 when the couple and their young children staged a baby gender reveal at El Dorado Ranch Park in Yucaipa, at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains.
A Cal Fire official on Sept. 7 told The Desert Sun, part of the USA TODAY Network, that the family had absolutely been cooperating with officials.
Over a 23-day period, the fire burned 22,680 acres in the Oak Glen and Yucaipa Ridge areas, and within the San Gorgonio Wilderness Area of the San Bernardino National Forest.
The fire forced evacuations and destroyed five residences and 15 other structures, and damaged four residences.