A couple whose gender reveal ceremony sparked a wildfire in the US state of California that killed a firefighter last year have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.
Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr and Angela Renee Jimenez pleaded not guilty to charges involving the 2020 El Dorado fire, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson announced at a news conference on Tuesday.
The charges included one felony count of involuntary manslaughter, along with other felony and misdemeanour counts related to the fire.
The blaze erupted on September 5 when the couple and their young children staged a baby “gender reveal” at El Dorado Ranch Park in Yucaipa, at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains.
