{"id":74409,"date":"2026-06-03T19:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/companies-that-sold-gender-reveal-fireworks-which-ignited-california-wildfire-agree-to-4m-settlement\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T00:56:04","slug":"companies-that-sold-gender-reveal-fireworks-which-ignited-california-wildfire-agree-to-4m-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/companies-that-sold-gender-reveal-fireworks-which-ignited-california-wildfire-agree-to-4m-settlement\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies that sold gender-reveal fireworks which ignited California wildfire agree to $4m settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Dorado blaze that burned 22,744 acres and claimed the life of a firefighter was ignited by an illegal device<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nearly six years after a couple\u2019s gender-reveal stunt <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2021\/jul\/21\/couple-gender-reveal-party-wildfire-charged\">sparked a deadly wildfire in southern California<\/a>, the companies that sold the pyrotechnic device have agreed to a multimillion-dollar settlement.<\/p>\n<p>The Hubbard, Ohio-based Wholesale Fireworks Corp and its subsidiary American Fireworks Wholesale LLC have agreed to pay more than $4m, the US attorney\u2019s office in the central district of California announced on Tuesday. A third company, the Miami-based Pink or Blue Gender Team Inc, agreed to pay $50,000.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/03\/gender-reveal-fireworks-california-wildfire-settlement\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Dorado blaze that burned 22,744 acres and claimed the life of a firefighter was ignited by an illegal device Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Nearly six years after a couple\u2019s gender-reveal stunt sparked a deadly wildfire in southern California, the companies that sold the pyrotechnic device have agreed to a &#8230; <a title=\"Companies that sold gender-reveal fireworks which ignited California wildfire agree to $4m settlement\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/companies-that-sold-gender-reveal-fireworks-which-ignited-california-wildfire-agree-to-4m-settlement\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Companies that sold gender-reveal fireworks which ignited California wildfire agree to $4m settlement\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}