Companies that sold gender-reveal fireworks which ignited California wildfire agree to $4m settlement

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Nearly six years after a couple's gender-reveal stunt sparked a deadly wildfire in southern California, the companies that sold the pyrotechnic device have agreed to pay more than $4 million in settlement. The El Dorado blaze burned 22,744 acres and killed a firefighter. Wholesale Fireworks Corp and its subsidiary American Fireworks Wholesale LLC, both based in Hubbard, Ohio, sold the illegal device that ignited the 2020 fire, one of California's most destructive wildfires in that year.