El Dorado Ranch Park fire screenshot via ABC7 YUCAIPA – A fire that originated in El Dorado Ranch Park in the foothills of the San Bernardino mountains Sunday was caused by smoke-generating pyrotechnic device used in a ‘gender-reveal’ party according to a California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection spokesperson.
The blaze which moved rapidly up the Yucaipa Ridge into the San Bernardino National Forest has already spread across nearly 8,000 acres.
Residents of several communities in the area were ordered to evacuate. The El Dorado fire is now yet another of more than two dozen wildfires currently raging in California which within the last month alone have been burned more than 1.5 million acres in California by upward of 900
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