The Associated Press.The El Dorado Fire began on Sept. 5, 2020 after the couple and their family held a gender reveal party at the base of the San Bernardino Mountains at the El Dorado Ranch Park.Such parties, which are supposed to announce the biological gender of an unborn child, have led to fires, explosions, injuries, and death.A pyrotechnic device used during the Jimenez event caught the surrounding grass on fire after it was started.
The fire grew in the region’s dry conditions — some have connected to the environment to climate change.Charlie Morton, 39, was killed as flames overran a remote area in the San Bernardino National Forest area.