A couple expecting a new baby set out Saturday morning to share the news of the child's sex by setting off a smoke bomb that would send plumes of pink or blue smoke rising into the arid Southern California air.
The misguided"gender-reveal" stunt is not the first to spark a costly conflagration. A similar antic in 2017 started a 47 000-acre wildfire in the foothill's of southern Arizona's Santa Rita Mountains. In April, another gender-reveal gimmick set off a brush fire in Florida.
Karvunidis popularized the gender-reveal party when she threw one to announce her oldest daughter's sex in 2008. She and her husband cut into a cake filled with pink frosting, and she wrote about the family event on her blog High Gloss and Sauce. But the increasingly dramatic, and often dangerous, events that her party spawned have left Karvunidis begging people to leave the trend in the past.
Her thinking also changed because of her daughters' diverse range of gender expression. Her oldest daughter wears suits, she said, but another daughter cried when Santa Claus brought her Legos on Christmas because she thought it was a"boy" toy. "When I first saw that a gender-reveal party had caused a forest fire I cried because I felt responsible," she told the publication months before the El Dorado Fire.
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