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House Fires - PLEASE READ
Received from a friend who is in the property
insurance business. It is well worth reading. This isone 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 and most of th
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 had one of those "Aha" moments. Hesaid 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, 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 investiator 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.
Received from a friend who is in the property
insurance business. It is well worth reading. This isone 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 and most of th
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 had one of those "Aha" moments. Hesaid 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, 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 investiator 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.