Border agent's gender-reveal party burned 47,000 acres and cost $8.2 million to extinguish

[dalton99a]

https://tucson.com/news/local/video-shows-explosion-at-border-agent-s-gender-reveal-party/article_8bdd526a-f1bc-11e8-ae15-73c74c343664.html

Video shows explosion at border agent's gender-reveal party that sparked Arizona wildfire
Tony Davis | Arizona Daily Star | Nov 26, 2018



The Sawmill Fire is shown erupting from an exploding target — with blue smoke curling off the fire's fringes — in a video just obtained by the Arizona Daily Star.

The 49-second video clearly shows the fire starting in yellow grassland near a stand of mesquite trees from the exploding target on state land in the Santa Rita Mountain foothills on April 23, 2017. Towards the end of the video, a male voice is heard saying "Start packing up!" twice.

The Star obtained the video from the U.S. Forest Service through the Freedom of Information Act. The service, which led the investigation into the fire's origin, blacked out persons shown in the video. In a letter to Star reporter Tony Davis, Forest Service official Tracy Perry cited two exemptions to FOIA allowing the withholding of information to protect peoples' privacy. Perry is the service's director of Law Enforcement and Investigations.

Border Patrol Agent Dennis Dickey, who has admitted starting the fire with an explosive target, ignited the blaze during a gender reveal party that was held to show the gender of his wife's expected baby, his attorney Sean Chapman told the Star in September. Since gender reveal parties typically use blue smoke to announce a male baby and pink smoke to announce a girl, Dickey's wife presumably was expecting a boy.

[James48]

1. What a dick

Dock his pay for the next 500 years.

[MissB]

3. He has to pay restitution of over 8 million dollars including a first payment of $100k

And monthly payments thereafter.

He will be paying a monthly amount forever.

[Ms. Toad]

5. Ther goes that baby's chance at college. n/t

[Historic NY]

6. Better find another job because being a border guard isn't going to pay enough.

[uppityperson]

2. What a stupid thing to do, putting an explosion in tall dry grass.

I hope he's no longer in any position of authority, with that sort of poor judgement.

[JI7]

4. asshole

[OnDoutside]

7. Call the boy Phoenix....

[pansypoo53219]

8. can we have cupcakes instead NOW???

[LisaL]

10. Exactly. Put some blue frosting on capcakes and there you go. No millions of $ in damages that he

now has to pay.

[hexola]

9. Let's keep in mind this is a GUN story

Fucking morons treating their precious 2nd Amendment rights like toys...