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Lyndell Thompson
 
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Default OT, fire safety issue!






Received from a friend who is in the property insurance business. It
is
well worth reading. This is one of those e-mails that if you didn'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
his wife
learned a hard lesson this past week.

Their house burned 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 plastic.

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 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 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.




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