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    Gender-Reveal Party Accident Leaves Border Agent Bearing Guilt For Wildfire

    What to expect when you're expecting? Probably not a 47,000-acre blaze. But that's what Dennis Dickey got after he fired at a target meant to explode in blue or pink. Now, he has pleaded guilty.
    by Colin Dwyer Oct 01, 2018 2 minutes
    The Sawmill Fire burned near Tucson, Ariz., in late April 2017. Not all views of the blaze were nearly so scenic as this one, shot at sunset by the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management.

    When Dennis Dickey lined up his rifle, he was ready for a surprise. That is the point of a gender-reveal party, after all, and Dickey's inanimate target was ready to yield its unpredictable answer just as soon as he fired. But it wasn't his child's

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