Jan 22, 2005 13:52
Something to watch out for peoples:
Thought this was worth passing on: FIRE DANGER.
Message was written by a lady whose learned a hard lesson this past week. Their house burned
down....nothing left but ashes. They have good insurance so the home 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 what she had plugged in 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 remembered she had a Glade Plug-in in the bathroom. He said he has seen more home fires started with the plug-in type room fresheners than anything else.
He said the plastic they are made from is a 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, 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 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 homes that have been burnt down due to them.