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Fire Danger
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:10 pm
by Iceman
FYI: Sent to me by my sister ...
Sent by a friend:
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 plug in type room fresheners than anything else. He said the plastic they are made 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 wall plug, 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 down homes.
Thought I would warn you all. I had several of them plugged in my house. I immediately took them all down.
Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2004 5:20 pm
by Topher
http://www.snopes.com/toxins/glade.asp
I hate...really hate the people that make this "righteous super good all spam" up.
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:08 am
by HaAGen DaZS
now, the plug in fragreances here maybe better than yours in sone sense
, but we've been doing this for years - sometims its turned off, most of the time its on.
you dont feel it getting hot... and i'm pretty sure the house hasnt burnt down yet..
AAAAAAHH...
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:11 am
by Spaceboy
i thought most fires started in the kitchen?
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 2:05 pm
by MD-2389
Spaceboy wrote:i thought most fires started in the kitchen?
Often by people that put something on the stove and fall asleep....and you know the rest.
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:16 pm
by AceCombat
i never use plug in fresheners.
i always use spray based
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:43 pm
by Vindicator
AceCombat wrote:i never use plug in fresheners.
i always use spray based
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:13 pm
by roid
i just came to look at this thread and...
OH NOES!
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 10:35 pm
by Sapphire Wolf
That pic is creepy!
Posted: Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:26 pm
by Defender
And photochopped to hell.
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 2:50 am
by Lothar
wow, that would make a heck of a halloween costume...
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 6:19 am
by woodchip
And there I thought the fire was gonna be due to the wife leaving her steely dan plugged in.
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:40 am
by Richard Cranium
woodchip wrote:And there I thought the fire was gonna be due to the wife leaving her steely dan plugged in.
I sure hope 'Steely Dan' is in referance to the singer and not a toy.
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:49 am
by roid
i was hoping that SOOOOO MUCH. that all my brain power was put into hoping, and my arms, now useless withour my brain cpu cycles to control it, couldn't post how much i was hoping that woody is referring to the singer and not "other".
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 1:01 pm
by Mobius
I believe another very common cause of house fires is clothes driers. People forget to empty the filter, and up they go!
Electric blankets are another major source of serious injury and fires too.
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:16 pm
by woodchip
I assume you NOOBs know where the band "Steely Dan" got their name. Toy? In some circles a steely dan is refered to as a "power tool". WHAT THE HECK do you think I was refering to? Me sadly shakes head and ponders it all.
Posted: Mon Oct 11, 2004 9:14 pm
by Stryker
[offtopic]
My band played Reeling in the Years by Steely Dan last year...
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Posted: Thu Oct 14, 2004 10:12 pm
by roid
it had to be used.
Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:00 pm
by Ympakt
If you need to have air fresheners plugged in to cover up some smell, CLEAN THE F*****G HOUSE!
Next thing you know there will be some study in 10 years that you'll be 10,599 times more likely to get some disease due to the inhalation of the chemicals used in Glade and other air fresheners.
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:05 pm
by WarAdvocat
Luckily, I can't stand air fresheners
Instant headache.
Although we do use lysol in the trash cans before we put in a new liner.
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 2:23 pm
by AceCombat
roid wrote:i just came to look at this thread and...
OH NOES!
you know what would be hilarious......is if he was using his middle finger instead of the index
Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:24 pm
by roid
wow, that was a while ago wasn't it.