House Fires

qreef

Member
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 aske! d 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 into 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.
 

space_geek

Active Member
WOW...thats some good info. I'd hate for my house to burn down. BTW, I just unplugged all 10 plug-in air fresheners that we have throughout the house...
 

speg

Active Member
Well.. if my house burned down because of one of those.. i'd just have to sue them for a gazillion dollars... :) Imagine the fish tank i'd get then... and more importantly..... the babes.
 

lovethesea

Active Member
I will say, I did get rid of mine (Bath and Body version) when one of mine went dry.
ONe day one of my kids says........"I smell something burning" :scared: needless to say my nose went on overdrive (right to the tank of course) then elsewhere. Then my nose led me to the plug in smelly thing. Pulled that sucker and all other others out of their sockets and threw them right in the trash.

Now I love the little glass frames by Glad that have smelly stuff in them :joy:
 

mimzy

Active Member
I love snopes too....
but that's not as conclusive as they usually are... :thinking:
I don't use plug-ins anyhow. They give my Mom migranes.
 

darth tang

Active Member
Didn't need snopes to sort of debunk this. If the product was lethal and caused fires, someone would stop the manufucaturing of them at some level.
I have used these in my business and never had a problem.
 

1journeyman

Active Member
True.. logic kind of calls this into question from the beginning..
We live in a society where parents are suing fast food companies because their kids are overweight. I'm guessing a company that kept cranking out devices that were burning down houses wouldn't be around for very long...
 

vyperone

Member
This sounds like one of the those "Urban Legends" stories... But I don't like those darn things, they are waste of money, so I will spread the word anyways...
 
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