GEN-TRIVIA-ENG-L Archives

Archiver > GEN-TRIVIA-ENG > 2005-03 > 1110021557


From: "Miriam" <>
Subject: Fw: Please read and warn your friends
Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 11:19:17 -0000


I was sent this by a reliable friend so I have no reason to doubt it!!
www.pagetdesigns.co.uk

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
All outgoing emails scanned by Norton Antivirus.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Seriously it could get any one of us!
Subject: HOME FIRE DANGER - do read this.

HOME FIRE DANGER - do read this. READ This Don't just delete it. This
was received from a friend in the home insurance business. It is well
worth reading.

This is one of those emails 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 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 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 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 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 ra ther than just blow the
light bulb.

Once it cooled down it would come 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 homes that
have been burnt down due to them.

PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO ALL THE PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. NOT ONLY
COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE'S HOME, BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.





This thread: