House Fires- Please Read!!

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House fires--please read!!!!!
>
>Received from a friend who is in the insurance property business. It
is
well
>worth reading.
>
>This is one of those e-mails that if you don'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 wife learned a hard
>lesson this past week.
>
>Their house burnt down.. nothing left but ashes. They have good
insurance so
>the house 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-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. He 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. 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 l! ight wo uld be back on again. The nvestigator 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.
>
>PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE
>
>PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK.
>
>NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE'S HOUSE,
>
>BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE
Love everyday like it's your last on earth!!

Diane Amberg

That's good information. We, as fire fighters and fire safety teachers, are a worried about all the plug in type "smell good" stuff. It's not very well made. That's also why we recommend unplugging small house hold appliances when they are not in use.

Devyn-Leann

Just took the one I used for night-light purpses only, out!  Thanks!

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