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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.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; fire; firefighters; sawmillfire; tannerite; wildfire
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To: cherry
This is an example of something I'll never understand.

How many people were present?

Did not one of them say, 'this might be a bad idea'?

21 posted on 11/26/2018 9:06:53 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: cherry

I cant speak for him and I am not saying it was a wise decision, but he was using tannerite and as I understand it tannerite is considered relatively safe and under normal circumstances would not have caused a fire.


22 posted on 11/26/2018 9:34:03 PM PST by 98charlie
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To: ameribbean expat

That area is the setting for a book I’m writing.


23 posted on 11/26/2018 9:37:07 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Every time a lefty cries "racism", a Trump voter gets his wings.)
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To: 98charlie

A lot of people say things they shouldn’t. Thank you for the difficult work you do on the border.


24 posted on 11/26/2018 9:45:52 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: 98charlie

This has zip to do about his job. I was in fedgov too and i know if he had the right connections he’d be protected.


25 posted on 11/26/2018 9:47:31 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SaveFerris

jack assery is just natures way of thinning the herd


26 posted on 11/26/2018 9:56:45 PM PST by Nailbiter
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To: Nailbiter
jack assery is just natures way of thinning the herd

Sadly the part that is thinned is often the part that had nothing to do with it.

27 posted on 11/26/2018 10:01:22 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold.)
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To: ameribbean expat

The bonfire was all fun and games until someone’s wiener gets burned.


28 posted on 11/26/2018 10:02:27 PM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic is one stop shopping...It's the super Walmart for news.)
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To: ameribbean expat
>>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.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/09/05/priority-johnny-cash-accidentally-started-wildfire-destroyed-500-acres-killed-49-refuges-53-endangered-condors/

...When the judge asked Cash why he did it, Cash said, “I didn’t do it, my truck did, and it’s dead, so you can’t question it.” The fire destroyed 508 acres (206 ha), burning the foliage off three mountains and driving off forty-nine of the refuge’s 53 endangered condors. In June 1965, his camper caught fire during a fishing trip with his nephew Damon Fielder in Los Padres National Forest in California, triggering a forest fire that burnt several hundred acres and nearly killed Cash. Cash claimed that the fire was caused by sparks from a defective exhaust system on his camper, but Fielder thinks that Cash started a fire to stay warm and in his drugged condition failed to notice the fire getting out of control.

Cash was unrepentant and claimed, “I don’t care about your damn yellow buzzards.” The federal government sued him and was awarded $125,172 ($939,914 in 2016 dollars). Cash eventually settled the case and paid $82,001.He said he was the only person ever sued by the government for starting a forest fire.

29 posted on 11/26/2018 10:08:50 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: cherry

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

because “internet”

if there was no place to put the video to be shared, it wouldn’t be a “thing”


30 posted on 11/26/2018 10:10:47 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committtee)
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To: Nailbiter

No; it’s a demonstration of poor character. Humans are not animals that run on instinct; we’re expected to build character.


31 posted on 11/26/2018 10:57:00 PM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: yesthatjallen

The gender reveal was his baby’s gender, not his. His wife was pregnant.


32 posted on 11/26/2018 11:12:14 PM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: ameribbean expat

“Gender-reveal?” That’s weird and creepy terminology. It’s sex, not gender. And no, a party about it is not necessary. And we don’t want to know about it.


33 posted on 11/27/2018 12:08:03 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: ameribbean expat

“Gender” is for Latin languages and plants. Linguistic activists are creepy, too, by the way. Get the feminists out of university English departments, and we’ll see dictionaries fixed in the future.


34 posted on 11/27/2018 12:10:26 AM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: nopardons; All

Back in the good old days, sex reveal parties took place in the delivery room.


35 posted on 11/27/2018 2:38:26 AM PST by nfldgirl
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To: nfldgirl

“Back in the good old days, sex reveal parties took place in the delivery room.”
The way it should be done.


36 posted on 11/27/2018 2:45:33 AM PST by dennisw
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To: ameribbean expat

I’ve never really been interested in Tannerite, but I may have to stock up before it’s banned. I think that’s not too far off.


37 posted on 11/27/2018 2:47:48 AM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: ameribbean expat

Ban gender reveal parties.


38 posted on 11/27/2018 3:22:52 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (<---Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year)
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To: nopardons
( gender has to do with foreign languages !)

If you only look at the second half of the definition of the term, that's true.

39 posted on 11/27/2018 3:24:44 AM PST by Travis T. OJustice (<---Time Magazine's 2006 Person of the Year)
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To: ameribbean expat

My son did his gender reveal the same way two weeks ago. He used a pound of tannerite and a pumpkin for a container. We did it in a green, wet yard where there was no fire danger.

Looks like that guy had 5 pounds or more in a tinder box.


40 posted on 11/27/2018 3:29:28 AM PST by IamConservative (I was nervous like the third chimp in line for the Ark after rain had started falling.)
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