House Fires

Below is an E-mail sent into gadfly01.blogspot@gmail.com

Hi, Gadfly Readers,

Today, I received a warning email from a friend that depicts a situation that I know, from first hand knowledge, is true.  One of my close friends had her kitchen destroyed in a fire.
Here's the email

The original message was written by a lady whose brother and his wife learned a hard lesson.  Their house burnt down.  Nothing left but ashes.  They had 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 telling 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.  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 light built in it.  She said she had noticed that the light would dim and 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 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 had seen too many places that have been burned down due to them.

I threw out all my plug-ins years ago when my friend lost her kitchen and I've been telling everybody I know not to buy the Plug-ins.  I'm taking the time today to warn everyone that they are a real threat to your safety.  Please tell everyone you know.  Not only could you save someone's house but it could save someone's life.
                                                                                A fellow Mullican 


Update - here is a clickable link  to the comment posted by a reader
http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/household/glade.asp