>House Fires - PLEASE READ
>
>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 recently.
>
>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 li ght 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.
