On Dec 1, 5:58 pm, (Doug Miller) wrote:
In article , wrote:

[top posting corrected]

On Dec 1, 2:04 pm, (Doug Miller) wrote:
Turn the tripped breaker off. Then turn it on. Then reset the GFCI. If that
doesn't take care of the problem, your best bet is to call an electrician.
I did try to turn the tripped circuit breaker off and then ON. but I
won't turned to "on" .

Then either you have a bad breaker, or a short circuit. Either way, I think
it's time for you to call an electrician.

since this is a 10 year old home, do you think GFCI is wore out and I
may need to install a new one.

No, I don't. Why do you? There is no indication anywhere in your post that
there is any kind of problem with the GFCI. The *breaker* is tripped, and as
I've already pointed out, you *cannot* reset the GFCI without having power to
it -- and until that breaker is reset, there won't be. Why do you think the
problem is with the GFCI? There may be one, but (barring a short inside the
GFCI itself, which is very unlikely) it isn't the *only* problem. It's
necessary to find out why the breaker can't be reset. And to do that, I think
you need to call an electrician.

I am not sure how GFCI can cause the
breaker to trip.

Most likely, it didn't. The trip was caused either by the overload created
with the hair dryer and electric heater, or by whatever fault condition is
preventing you from resetting the breaker. It's possible that fault condition
is inside the GFCI, but unlikely.

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Regards,
Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com)

It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again.

Since the circuit is dead, why not eliminate the GFCI as a possible
problem by simply removing the wires to line side of it? Cap off the
hot with a wirenut just to be safe and then try resetting the
breaker.

I agree it's highly unlikely that it's the problem, but it seems like
an easy enough task to either prove it is the problem or to eliminate
it from the discussion.