Episode 1968
Sawmill Fire (2017)
Sat, 2022-Sep-24 01:08 UTC
Length - 2:46
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The featured article for Saturday, 24 September 2022 is Sawmill Fire (2017).
The Sawmill Fire was a wildfire that burned 46,991 acres (190.17 km2) in the U. S. state of Arizona in April 2017. The fire was caused by the detonation of a target packed with Tannerite at a gender reveal party in the Coronado National Forest. No injuries or fatalities resulted from the fire, nor were any buildings destroyed, though the fire did come close to the historic Empire Ranch, a National Register of Historic Places property. Over 800 personnel from various federal, state, and local agencies and organizations worked to contain and then extinguish the Sawmill Fire at a cost of $8,200,000.
The fire was started by accident on April 23, 2017, by Dennis Dickey, an off-duty U. S. Border Patrol agent who had shot the Tannerite target. Dickey immediately informed first responders of the fire, which spread rapidly until it was contained on April 30. The U. S. Attorney's Office charged Dickey with a misdemeanor charge to which he pleaded guilty, fined him $220,000 dollars in restitution, and sentenced him to five years' probation. The fire remained in the public's consciousness afterward because of other fires caused by Tannerite targets and by gender reveal parties, such as the 2020 El Dorado Fire in California. When the U. S. Forest Service released footage of the fire's inception in November 2018 at the request of a local news agency, the cause of the Sawmill Fire was subject to online mockery.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:08 UTC on Saturday, 24 September 2022.
For the full current version of the article, see Sawmill Fire (2017) on Wikipedia.
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