New video shows how an off-duty Border Patrol agent accidentally started a 47,000-acre wildfire in Arizona when a gender-reveal party went horribly wrong

Arizona Daily Star

• A new video published by the Arizona Daily Star shows an off-duty Border Patrol agent starting a massive wildfire in Arizona last year by shooting a box of explosives to celebrate his baby son. 
• The video shows the box in the middle of a field of long, dead grass suddenly exploding after what sounds like a gunshot. 
• The surrounding grass then catches fire.
• Dennis Dickey, 37, admitted in September to starting the Sawmill Fire in April 2017, which scorched 47,000 acres and cost $8.2 million to put out.

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The Arizona Daily Star published a video on Wednesday of an off-duty Border Patrol agent starting a massive wildfire in Arizona last year by shooting a box of explosives to celebrate his baby boy. 

The video shows the box of explosives in the middle of a field of long, dead grass suddenly exploding after what sounds like a gunshot. The surrounding grass then catches fire before two blacked out images of people walk through the shot and someone yells, "Start packing it up!" See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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