Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez have pleaded not guilty to all charges related to the El Dorado Fire, including one felony count of involuntary manslaughter.
A couple whose gender reveal party sparked a Southern California wildfire that burned nearly 22,000 acres and killed a firefighter last year have been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez have pleaded not guilty to all charges related to the El Dorado Fire, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson announced at Tuesday news conference. The charges include one felony count of involuntary manslaughter, three felony counts of recklessly causing fire with great bodily injury, four felony counts of recklessly causing fire to inhabited structures and 22 misdemeanor counts of recklessly causing fire to property of another. The wildfire erupted on Sept.5 when the couple and their young children set up a baby gender reveal at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains in Yucaipa.
