By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 21:12 EST, 2 July 2012 | UPDATED: 15:21 EST, 3 July 2012 Federal authorities investigating a devastating wildfire that has singed nearly 18,000 acres of Arizona have traced the inferno to a bachelor party celebration gone wrong. A Mesa man has been charged with starting a wildfire that burned nearly 18,000 acres after the blaze started on May 12. Federal prosecutors said Steven Craig Shiflet, 23, was target shooting with a group of friends as part of a bachelor party when he fired a 12-gauge shotgun loaded with a flame-shooting shell. Firestarter: Prosecutors say Craig Shiflet accidentally started the Sunflower Fire while at a bachelor party with friends
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Steven Craig Shiflet, 23, indicted for alleged role in setting Arizona's Sunflower Fire, the state's largest this year
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Shotgun shell reportedly had warning label that said: 'Shoots 100 feet of fire'
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