Many LGBT+ activists have criticized gender reveal parties for being outdated and stigmatizing. Now one has started a huge wildfire in California.
The El Dorado Fire at Oak Glen in San Bernardino County is still burning. So far it has scorched 9,671 acres – and counting.
Now authorities have confirmed that a ‘smoke generating pyrotechnic device’ at a gender reveal party in Yucaipa’s El Dorado Ranch Park started the blaze.
Parents have embraced the gender reveal party craze to celebrate unborn babies over the last decade. The parties started by using blue or pink frosting on cakes to show if they were having a boy or girl.