Gender Reveal Party for Border Patrol Agent Results in Wildfire
by Liz Coffman
Oct 05, 2018
Over the last year, gender-reveal parties have become massively popular among expecting parents.
An increasingly popular method for revealing the gender has been to break or pop objects containing a compound called Tannerite, revealing either a blue or pink dust.
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What you may not know, however, is that Tannerite is an explosive compound.
Dennis Dickey, a United States Border Patrol agent, learned this the hard way when his gender-reveal party started a wildfire that consumed more than 45,000 acres of land.
When Dickey shot at a target containing Tannerite to reveal the gender of his unborn child, the resulting explosion set off a fire that spread to the Coronado National Forest.
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Mr. Dickey is currently serving five years of probation, as well as paying restitution for the damage caused by the fire.
This incident should be a good word of caution for parents throwing a gender-reveal party with similar chemicals.
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Liz Coffman
Liz Coffman has worked in the advertising industry for over 7 years and is passionate about connecting people to the world around them through her writing. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Liz is also a professional musician, avid rock climber, hiker and adventure seeker.
