More than 500 firefighters and four helicopters are battling the El Dorado blaze east of San Bernardino, California. More than 3,000 residents of several communities in the area have been ordered to evacuate as more than 7,000 acres of land burn. The fire is only five percent contained.

Officials point to the smoke generated by a pyrotechnic device used during a gender reveal party as the cause of the blaze. Gender reveal parties, held during pregnancy to unveil the sex of the expected child, are sometimes announced by pink or blue smoke fireworks. With thousands of people now facing imminent homelessness, the relevance of these gender reveal parties are now being called into question