A Word To The Wise
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.