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FYI.............IMPORTANT...........

<< A friend sent this to me......

Friends: My brother and his wife learned a hard lesson this last week.

Their house burned down...nothing was left but ashes. They have good

insurance so the home 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 my

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, my sister-in-law remembered

she had a Glade Plug-in the bathroom. The investigator had one of those

" Aha! "

moments. He said that was the cause of the fire & has seen more home fires

started with the plug in type room fresheners than anything else. The plastic

they

are made from is a very THIN plastic. He said 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.

My 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 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 bacevice anywhere in his house sice he has seen too many burned

down homes.

Thought I would warn you all. I had several of them plugged in my house &

immediately took them all down.

Steve " Smitty " ('98)

Fire Protection Engineer I

Colorado Springs Fire Department

" In Omnia Paratus "

" Fire Engineering saves Firefighters lives " >>