Might be a hoax... check, for example h
tp://www.hoax-slayer.com/glade-plug-in-fire.html
or google [hoax "plug in" "air freshener"]
Regards,
Lauren Crane
Product Regulatory Analyst
Corporate Product EHS Lead
Applied Materials Inc.
Austin, TX 512 272-6540 [#922 26540]
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Nick Williams <[email protected]>
Sent by: [email protected]
10/06/2008 02:16 PM To
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Subject
Plug-top style vaporisers
A friend of mine who is a fire accident investigator recently sent me
the following, which had been sent in turn to him by one of his
contacts.
I'm not a fan of chain e-mails but I'm posting this to this mailing
list since I think it's of particular interest to this group of
readers. I also hope that someone might be able to confirm whether
there is, in fact, any evidence of these products being the cause of
multiple house fires and, this being the case, whether there is any
standards related activity in response.
I'd welcome other considered and engineering based comments as well
as hearing from anyone who has received this or a similar e-mail from
another another source.
I need to declare an interest. I've been involved in designing and
manufacturing plug-top vaporiser type products for many years and at
one time had a bit to do with the development of standards for them
both in the UK and the US. However, that's more than a dozen years
ago now so although we still have clients who make and sell this
group of products I'm no longer 'close to the coal-face' of standards
development.
I've intentionally deleted the brand name from the following text.
The photograph which accompanied the original message can be seen on
line at www.hucklow.com/MISC/VAPORISER/att00001.jpg.
Regards
Nick.
House fires--please read!!!!!
This photo was taken at the scene of a house fire that occurred over
the weekend.
I've never heard this info before...
House fires--please read!!!!!
Received from a friend who is in the insurance property business. It
is well worth reading.
This is one of those e-mails that if you don't send it, rest assured
someone on your list will suffer for not reading it. The original
message was written by a lady whose brother and wife learned a hard
lesson this past week.
Their house burnt down.. nothing left but ashes. They have good
insurance so the house will be replaced and most of the contents.
That is the good news.
However, they were sick when they found out the cause of the fire.
The insurance investigator sifted through the ashes for several
hours. He had the cause of the fire traced to the master bathroom. He
asked her sister-in-law what she had plugged in the bathroom. She
listed the normal things....curling iron, blow dryer. He kept saying
to her, 'No, this would be something that would disintegrate at high
temperatures'. Then her sister-in-law remembered she had a [major
brand name deleted], in the bathroom.
The investigator had one of those 'Aha' moments. He said that was the
cause of the fire. He said he has seen more house fires started with
the plug-in type room fresheners than anything else. He said the
plastic they are made from is THIN. He also said that in every case
there was nothing left to prove that it even existed. When the
investigator looked in the wall plug, the two prongs left from the
plug-in were still in there.
Her sister-in-law had one of the plug-ins that had a small night
light built in it. She said she had noticed that the light would dim
and then finally go out. She would walk in to the bathroom a few
hours later, and the light would be back on again. The investigator
said that the unit was getting too hot, and would dim and go out
rather than just blow the light bulb. Once it cooled down it would
come back on. That is a warning sign.
The investigator said he personally wouldn't have any type of plug in
fragrance device anywhere in his house. He has seen too many places
that have been burned down due to them.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. NOT ONLY
COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE'S HOUSE, BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE
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