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LEARNED THERE WAS NOTHING ABOUT THE EXPLOSION THAT WAS AGAINST THE LAW. THE WALKIE FIRE DEPARTMENT RESPONDED TO THIS VACANT LOT ON YOUTUBE AVENUE EARLY SUNDAY EVENING ON REPORTS OF AN EXPLOSION TALK TO THE PROPERTY OWNER WHO APOLOGIZED SAID THAT THEY HAD PURCHASED A GENDER REVEAL KIT CAPTAIN TEASDALE TELLS US IT WAS A KID JUST LIKE THIS A TANNERITE GENDER REVEAL BOOM BOX KIT THAT IS NOT AGAINST THE LAW TO PURCHASE. THEY SHOT IT WITH A RIFLE, WHICH IS LEGAL THERE IN THE COUNTY. THEY’RE NOT IN THE CITY LIMITS OF WALKIE. AS FAR AS WE’RE KNOW. IT’S WE KNOW IT’S LEGAL THAT IS OF LITTLE COMFORT. WAUKEE RESIDENTS WHO LIVE MORE THAN TWO MILES AWAY AND WE’RE HOME WITH THEIR FAMILIES WE HEARD THAT LOUD EXPLOSION DIDN’T KNOW WHAT IT WAS ALSO IN LIKE THE WHOLE HOUSE. JUST SHOOK, YOU KNOW, THERE’S A LOUD BOOM JOHN FOX SAYS WHEN HE HEARD THE EXPLOSION HIS REACTION WAS IMMEDIATE I RAN OUT TO THE BACK AT TRYING TO FIGURE IT OUT. I LOOKED AT MY NEIGHBORS YARDS EVERYBODY OUT BEHIND ME LOOKED LIKE THEY WERE INTACT KILLS HIM ALONE SAYS THE EXPLOSION LED TO A MOMENT OF INDECISION THAT WENT UP IN A PUFF OF SMOKE MY WIFE AND I JUS JUST STARED AT EACH OTHER. AND YOU KNOW SHE WAS LIKE, WHAT WAS THAT? I THOUGHT IT WAS SOMETHING THE BASEMENT. UM LOOKED IN THE BASEMENT CHECKED UPSTAIRS. CHECK THE GARAGE. NO ONE WAS HURT SUNDAY EVENING, BUT CAPTAIN TEASDALE SAYS INJURY IS ALWAYS A POSSIBILITY ANY TIME YOU’RE DEALING WITH ANY TYP

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The Waukee Fire Department announced Tuesday that a gender reveal explosion over the weekend shook homes more than two miles away.Authorities said the gender reveal incident took place Sunday, just outside of the Waukee city limits in a vacant lot off Ute Street.The explosion occurred one day after a deadly gender reveal incident in Knoxville that killed 56-year-old Pamela Kreimeyer.Waukee Fire Department Capt. Tommie Tysdal said the property owner used a Tannerite gender reveal boom box kit."They shot it with a rifle, which is legal," Tysdal said. "They are in the county, they are not in the city limits of Waukee, (so) as far as we know its legal."Waukee residents who felt the blast said the legality of the gender reveal kit brings little comfort."I ran out the back trying to figure it out," Waukee resident John Volk said. "I looked at my neighbor's yard. Everyone behind me looked like they were intact."My wife and I just stared at each other, and she was like, 'What was that?'" Waukee resident Kelsey Melone said. "I thought it was something in the basement, looked in the basement, checked upstairs (and) checked the garage."Tysdal said no injuries were reported in the explosion but that injury is always a possibility."Anytime you are dealing with any type of explosion or explosive it is dangerous," he said.Waukee residents told KCCI that they are relieved to hear no one was injured in the weekend blast.Family inadvertently made pipe bomb for gender reveal, authorities say