CALIFORNIA WILDFIRES: Pyrotechnic device at gender reveal party blamed for Southern California blaze. The El Dorado Fire has grown to 7,050 acres as of early Monday morning and containment is listed at 5%.

 In accordance with the prophecy: Thousands Dead As Missile Carrying Blue Confetti For Gender Reveal Party Accidentally Detonates Its Nuclear Payload.

 Found via Tablet magazine’s Noam Blum, aka Neontaster, who tweets, “(I may or may not have written that Babylon Bee story).”

Related: “Cal Fire spokesman Bennet Milloy said the group could be on the hook for millions to cover the hundreds of firefighters, helicopters and planes employed to tackle the El Dorado Fire, the Daily Mail reported. They also could face a ‘variety of charges,’ including arson, which carries a sentence of up to nine years, Milloy said.”