HOUSE FIRES PLEASE READ AND PASS ON TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW > > > >Received from a friend who is in the property insurance business. > > > >It is well worth reading. This is one of those e-mails that if you didn'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 his wife learned a > >hard > >lesson this past week. Their house burned down... nothing left but ashes. > >They > >have good insurance so the house will be replaced with 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 Glade Plug-In, in the bathroom. > >The > >investigator 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 plastic. 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, sure enough 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 it 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. > > > > HOUSE FIRES PLEASE READ (From Chief Dornell) > > > > Ok, I had one similar to this at my place in the mountains; it used the > > slide-in packets. Last weekend I unplugged it to use the outlet and found > >that > > the unit had melted and scorched the face of the outlet so I decided to > >replace > > the outlet I went to my panel and shut off the circuit breaker. > > > > Upon pulling the cover plate I found that the outlet had burnt away, > >melted a > > considerable portion in the interior plastic wall box and wire > >insulation. > > Obviously, this got very hot and I was very lucky that this did not cause > >a > > fire in the wall because I would have certainly lost my place. > > > > Notice that my breaker did not trip and I manually shut it off. I need to > > investigate why. Perhaps it was a steady current and never caused a surge > >or > > arcing that would have tripped the circuit breaker. I am encouraging > >everyone I > > know to pass on the fact that these are potentially dangerous. The > >consumer > > Products Safety Commission does not have a recall on the specific model > >that I > > was using. However, they will be hearing from me. Our Fire Prevention > >personnel > > will be using the remnant that I brought back to help spread the word > >through > > the Fire Prevention community as well. > > > > If you use something similar to this or other "plug-in" products take the > >time > > to pull them and toss them. We can't afford to be the proving grounds for > >these > > devices. It is my opinion that these are unsafe and should be pulled > >before > > something tragic occurs. > > > > PLEASE PASS THESE TWO TRUE STORIES 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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