http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html
Home destroyed by electrical fire

A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
determined.

Honolulu Fire Department inspectors found the origin of the blaze in a
crawl space under the home at 440 Puamamane St., according to Capt.
Earle Kealoha.

Damage was estimated at $300,000 to the wooden building and $50,000 to
contents.

Kamehameha Schools trustee Nainoa Thompson and his wife, Kathy Muneno,
lived in the house but were not home at the time.

Andy wrote:
http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html
Home destroyed by electrical fire

A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
determined.

Honolulu Fire Department inspectors found the origin of the blaze in a
crawl space under the home at 440 Puamamane St., according to Capt.
Earle Kealoha.

Damage was estimated at $300,000 to the wooden building and $50,000 to
contents.

Kamehameha Schools trustee Nainoa Thompson and his wife, Kathy Muneno,
lived in the house but were not home at the time.


From:

http://burnsurvivor.com/injury_examp...aterfires.html

Water Heater Fires

According to the Consumers Product Safety Commission, fires
involving gas water heaters result in 316 injuries and 17 deaths
per year. A gas water heater can be located in a garage or
utility room where it draws in combustion air near ground level.
If a hydrocarbon such as gasoline is spilled in the vicinity of
the water heater, a fire is extremely likely.
_________________

That is why I like my tankless mounted way up on the wall at
about eye level. Not to mention outside the house entirely.

--
Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX

On Apr 2, 2:07*am, Andy wrote:
http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html
Home destroyed by electrical fire

A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
determined.

Honolulu Fire Department inspectors found the origin of the blaze in a
crawl space under the home at 440 Puamamane St., according to Capt.
Earle Kealoha.

Damage was estimated at $300,000 to the wooden building and $50,000 to
contents.

Kamehameha Schools trustee Nainoa Thompson and his wife, Kathy Muneno,
lived in the house but were not home at the time.

There was a video on utube years ago on a tank where the thermostat
went bad and the saftey relief failed, the tank went through the
ceiling

On Apr 2, 9:50�am, ransley wrote:
On Apr 2, 2:07�am, Andy wrote:





http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html
Home destroyed by electrical fire

A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
determined.

Honolulu Fire Department inspectors found the origin of the blaze in a
crawl space under the home at 440 Puamamane St., according to Capt.
Earle Kealoha.

Damage was estimated at $300,000 to the wooden building and $50,000 to
contents.

Kamehameha Schools trustee Nainoa Thompson and his wife, Kathy Muneno,
lived in the house but were not home at the time.

There was a video on utube years ago on a tank where the thermostat
went bad and the saftey relief failed, the tank went through the
ceiling- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

theres a million ways to get dead,

easiet way is get in any vehicle, yet most of us do it daily..........

Andy wrote:
http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html
Home destroyed by electrical fire

A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
determined.

The article did not go into detail as to whether the fire was the result
of a manufacturing defect, improper installation, or improper usage.
Many a house has burned to the ground from a frayed appliance cord.
Electricity is perfectly safe when properly used.

Not likely, if even possible.

s

"ransley" wrote in message
...

There was a video on utube years ago on a tank where the thermostat
went bad and the saftey relief failed, the tank went through the
ceiling

On Apr 2, 2:08�pm, "S. Barker" wrote:
Not likely, �if even possible.

s

"ransley" wrote in message

...

There was a video on utube years ago on a tank where the thermostat
went bad and the saftey relief failed, the tank went through the
ceiling

must of been intential, why else would one record ones hot water tank?

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:27:04 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Apr 2, 2:08?pm, "S. Barker" wrote:
Not likely, ?if even possible.

s

"ransley" wrote in message

...

There was a video on utube years ago on a tank where the thermostat
went bad and the saftey relief failed, the tank went through the
ceiling

must of been intential, why else would one record ones hot water tank?

Mythbuster did intentially remove safety devices from a WH -
T-stat/shut off switch and T&P valve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETNDlHNvDAA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv178a60Ypg

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:25:19 -0800, Oren wrote:

On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:27:04 -0700 (PDT), "
wrote:

On Apr 2, 2:08?pm, "S. Barker" wrote:
Not likely, ?if even possible.

s

"ransley" wrote in message

...

There was a video on utube years ago on a tank where the thermostat
went bad and the saftey relief failed, the tank went through the
ceiling

must of been intential, why else would one record ones hot water tank?

Mythbuster did intentially remove safety devices from a WH -
T-stat/shut off switch and T&P valve.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETNDlHNvDAA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv178a60Ypg

The other one shows a building they built....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmJoyuUJj2Q

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:07:31 -0700, Andy wrote:

Honolulu Fire Department inspectors found the origin of the blaze in a
crawl space under the home at 440 Puamamane St., according to Capt.
Earle Kealoha.

Who puts a pretty tankless heater in a crawl space? Get a little more
surf time in

Andy wrote:
http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html
Home destroyed by electrical fire

A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
determined.

Honolulu Fire Department inspectors found the origin of the blaze in a
crawl space under the home at 440 Puamamane St., according to Capt.
Earle Kealoha.

Damage was estimated at $300,000 to the wooden building and $50,000 to
contents.

Kamehameha Schools trustee Nainoa Thompson and his wife, Kathy Muneno,
lived in the house but were not home at the time.

**** happens.


--
Blattus Slafaly ? 3 7/8

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:37:59 -0400, Blattus Slafaly 0/00 ? ? ?
wrote:

Andy wrote:
http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html
Home destroyed by electrical fire

A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
determined.

Honolulu Fire Department inspectors found the origin of the blaze in a
crawl space under the home at 440 Puamamane St., according to Capt.
Earle Kealoha.

Damage was estimated at $300,000 to the wooden building and $50,000 to
contents.

Kamehameha Schools trustee Nainoa Thompson and his wife, Kathy Muneno,
lived in the house but were not home at the time.

**** happens.

Well! You've got that figured out.

"ransley" wrote in message
...

There was a video on utube years ago on a tank where the thermostat
went bad and the saftey relief failed, the tank went through the
ceiling

S. Barker wrote:
Not likely, if even possible.

s



Unfortunately there is no vaccine for stupid.

Back in the mid eighties a school board plumber was trying to get a
regular water heater to produce water hot enough to meet the specs for
the cafeteria's new dish washer. He forced the heat setting past it's
limit stop and when the Temperature Pressure Relief (TPR) Valve began
venting he started over by replacing it with a pipe plug. When live
steam began coming out of the kitchen taps one of the cooks began
shouting for everyone to leave. He was a navy veteran and had a healthy
respect for the power of live steam. His warning was too late. Too
teachers and several students were killed in the resulting Boiling
Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion or B.L.E.V.E. It blew the concrete
block wall that divided the kitchen from the cafeteria in onto the
teachers and students. The response effort was written up in Fire
Command Magazine. If I remember correctly the incident occurred in Ohio
some place.

There was a similar incident in the mid nineties involving a restaurant
in Florida I think. In that case the water heater did go through the
roof of the strip center were the restaurant was located. I don't
remember if that BLEVE caused any deaths. I think that one was written
up in Fire Engineering.
--
Tom Horne

Well we aren't no thin blue heroes but we aren't no blackguards to.
We're just working men and women most remarkable like you.

With apologies to the Kipling trust for the paraphrasing.