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Video shows explosion at border agent's gender-reveal party that sparked Arizona wildfire
Tucson.com ^

Posted on 11/26/2018 8:13:03 PM PST by ameribbean expat

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.

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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.

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Before the fire was over, it had burned 47,000 acres and cost $8.2 million to extinguish, with nearly 800 firefighters battling the blaze.

(Excerpt) Read more at tucson.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; fire; firefighters; sawmillfire; tannerite; wildfire
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1 posted on 11/26/2018 8:13:03 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

Lets hope they come after him as hard as us regular unimportant peons they always like to make an example out of for doing things wrong by accident, or out of ignorance that we even did anything wrong.


2 posted on 11/26/2018 8:15:17 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Beware, these Einsteins breed.


3 posted on 11/26/2018 8:16:15 PM PST by Bullish (My tagline ran off with another man.)
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To: ameribbean expat
This whole STUPID SEX ( gender has to do with foreign languages !) REVEAL PARTY crap, is ridiculous!

And this guy should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!

4 posted on 11/26/2018 8:18:02 PM PST by nopardons
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To: ameribbean expat

Sounds like a dry run for Sodom and Gomorrah.


5 posted on 11/26/2018 8:20:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democracy dies when Democrats refuse to accept the result of a democratic election they didn't win.)
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To: ameribbean expat

2017?


6 posted on 11/26/2018 8:20:51 PM PST by Coffee... Black... No Sugar (No tagline provided...)
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To: Bullish

Indeed, this “party” was about his breeding activity..... unbelievably stooopid way to start a wildfire.


7 posted on 11/26/2018 8:22:03 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: ameribbean expat

I can’t read this. Way too much WTF.


8 posted on 11/26/2018 8:25:29 PM PST by AAABEST (NY/DC/LA media/political industrial complex DELENDA EST)
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To: ameribbean expat

I was actually relieved to read it was about revealing a babys gender. My first thoughts were that it was a LBQDDTXYZ thing.


9 posted on 11/26/2018 8:27:23 PM PST by D Rider
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To: Secret Agent Man

You will be glad to know that they came down hard on him. No jail time but the fine was considerable and it will take him the rest of his working life to pay it off. I dont understand why you think border patrol agents are treated different than everyone else if anything we are treated more harshly than others. With the restrictions placed on us it is almost impossible for us to do our jobs.


10 posted on 11/26/2018 8:29:29 PM PST by 98charlie
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i had the same thought as you!


11 posted on 11/26/2018 8:35:04 PM PST by Mount Athos (A Giant luxury mega-mansion for Gore, a Government Green EcoShack made of poo for you)
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To: ameribbean expat

“...border agent’s gender-reveal party...”
???


12 posted on 11/26/2018 8:38:53 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: ameribbean expat

That’s what they get for assuming the baby’s GENDER!!!


13 posted on 11/26/2018 8:44:00 PM PST by montag813
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To: ameribbean expat
This gender reveal trend is beyond tiresome.

Trying to outdo others with bigger explosions is a disaster in the making.

14 posted on 11/26/2018 8:45:27 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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“...border agent’s gender-reveal party...”


border agent's BABY's gender reveal party
15 posted on 11/26/2018 8:52:49 PM PST by ConjunctionJunction
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To: yesthatjallen
I can't understand setting explosives in tinder dry grasslands....

often in my semi arid area July 4th activities are cancelled if its too dry....

the authorities will issue no shooting/not even target shooting warnings...no burning or outside campfires, etc...

why would this man do such a stupid silly thing...

16 posted on 11/26/2018 8:56:32 PM PST by cherry (official troll)
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To: ameribbean expat

The stupid. It burns. Literally.

Unbelievable


17 posted on 11/26/2018 8:58:21 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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People should wait until their children turn 18 for the gender reveal party.


18 posted on 11/26/2018 9:02:37 PM PST by coloradan (The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
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To: 98charlie

I appreciate your service. The fact that this guy was BP in no way reflects on the entire service.


19 posted on 11/26/2018 9:02:57 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: coloradan

It’s like people are trying to out-do each other on stupid these days.

You should see them at Yahoo. They really do try to outdo each other on the stupidest things.


20 posted on 11/26/2018 9:04:14 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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