RE: Re: Definitely OT -- House Fires

See http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/glade.asp for the real story on
this e-mail. 


\\Steve// 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-iris@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On Behalf Of
RYFigge@aol.com
Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2006 6:09 PM
To: iris@hort.net
Subject: [iris] Re: Definitely OT -- House Fires

This is definitely OT - but I   think it important - sent to me by a friend 
-- I shudder to think of all that hybridizing data, etc going  up in flames!

But  excuse me if this OT is too-OT !  Rosalie nr Baltimore,USA (summer
temps, 
but zone 7 expectomg below freezing tonight.)

Subject: House Fires-PLEASE READ 

Received from a friend who is in the property 
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 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. 

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 

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