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Default Why deliberately shorting equipment to blow breakers might be a bad idea . . .


"Robert Green" wrote:

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Hours before a fire killed 10 people in a group home for the mentally ill
and disabled on Nov. 27 in Anderson, a maintenance worker trying to repair
a
furnace short-circuited wiring in the attic, where fire investigators said
they believed that the fire started. The worker told investigators that he
did not know which circuit breaker operated the furnace and that he
deliberately tripped the system, according to a report from the Missouri
Fire Safety Division. The wiring may have become overloaded, the report
staid. The fire marshal said the home did not have sprinklers. The report
was obtained by The Associated Press under an open-records law.


Imagine how many more people might have died if the fire had occurred from
an unintentional fault. Maybe no one would have died if it had never been
shorted, but there was obviously a deeper problem than an electrician with a
screwdriver.