Subject: Fire Hazard
Friends: My brother and his wife learned a hard lesson
this last 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 my sister-in-law 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, my
sister-in-law remembered
she had a Glade Plug-in 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 home fires started with the plugin
type room fresheners
than anything else. He said the plastic they aremade
from is a THIN
plastic. He said in every case there was nothing left
to prove that it
even existed. When the investigator looked in the
wallplug, the two
prongs left from the plug-in were still in there. My
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 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 burned
downhomes. Thought I would warn you all. I had several
of them
plugged in my house. I immediately took them all down.
