Dennis Dickey had no idea about what the aftermath of his action will be when he decided to reveal the gender of his soon-to-be-born baby to family and friends in an explosive fashion. He never imagined that his stunt would spark a 45,000 acre wildfire, well, that’s exactly what happened.

Dickey is a US Border Patrol agent. The 37-year-old planned to fire a shotgun at a target that would explode with either pink or blue powder, thus revealing the gender of his unborn child. There were a few things he didn’t really think through, though.

First, he packed the target with highly explosive compound called Tannerite – they are legal tho, for a more dramatic effect, and he also chose to place that target among dry grasses and mesquite trees. When Dickey fired his shotgun, blue smoke exploded from the target, revealing that his child was a boy, but there was no time to celebrate, as the explosion immediately ignited the surrounding dry plants.

The flames spread quickly and eventually turned into a massive wildfire that burned through over 45,000 acres of land along Arizona’s Highway 83 and forcing hundreds of people out of their homes. Known as the Sawmill Wildfire, the blaze took around 800 firefighters a week to put out and cost the state millions of dollars in damages and suppression costs.

The Sawmill Wildfire ravaged Arizona in April of 2017, but a video of the stupid accident that caused it was only recently published by the Arizona Star newspaper from the U.S. Forest Service.

After the explosion, as the flames engulf the dry grass, two men whose appearances have been edited out can be seen running in front of the camera. “Start packing up!” a man shouts. “Huh?” another man asks. “Start packing up!” the man shouts again.


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