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RiyahsDream12 Category: Business Strategies
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Posted on: 03/27/2008
Posted by: RiyahsDream12
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I THINK EVERYONE NEEDS TO KNOW THIS

This house fire occurred over the weekend.

I've never heard this info before...

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 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 ....

THIS WAS FORWARDED TO ME FROM FRIEND AND I THOUGHT TO DO THE SAME AND SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH FRIENDS......

RIYAHSDREAM12


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RealEstateInvestor

Posted By: RealEstateInvestor on 03/28/2008

The thought of those things being possibly dangerous never occurred to me before. 

I wonder what the PR department for the companies that make these  gives to explain why they still have a safe product.

I believe that they are likely to cause a fires, but I do have to wonder if this is a common cause of fires why hasn't the consumer product safety division of the Government not stepped in to stop the sales of these products or make them safer?

I will not be buying any of those in the future.  Thank you for sharing.

 
pecunia

Posted By: pecunia on 03/27/2008
I am sure this is correct... I had an incident in college where an electical surge hit my apartment.  I didn't have an air freshner type, but I did have one of those low energy consuming "gel" nightlights (they have the paile green or blue light they emit).  Anyway, the electrical surge that my house got blew up the low engergy night light and put about a 6 inch scortch mark on the wall and on the side of my curtains.  After that I told everyone I knew about the danger of those things.