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.
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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.
Beware, these Einsteins breed.
And this guy should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law!
Sounds like a dry run for Sodom and Gomorrah.
2017?
Indeed, this “party” was about his breeding activity..... unbelievably stooopid way to start a wildfire.
I can’t read this. Way too much WTF.
I was actually relieved to read it was about revealing a babys gender. My first thoughts were that it was a LBQDDTXYZ thing.
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.
i had the same thought as you!
“...border agent’s gender-reveal party...”
???
That’s what they get for assuming the baby’s GENDER!!!
Trying to outdo others with bigger explosions is a disaster in the making.
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...
The stupid. It burns. Literally.
Unbelievable
People should wait until their children turn 18 for the gender reveal party.
I appreciate your service. The fact that this guy was BP in no way reflects on the entire service.
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.
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