Subject: WARNING....REAL SAFETY INFORMATION
A GOOD WARNING TO US ALL..
My brother and his wife learned a hard lesson this last
week.
Their house
burned down...nothing 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 siftedthrough
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 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 home fires started with the
plug in type room fresheners than anything else.
He said the plastic they are made from is a 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 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 burned down homes. Thought I would warn you
all.
Pass this on to the ones that you
love,