Re: IML: Fwd: FIRE DANGER

["John Harvey" <50scars@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Go to Snopes.com or one of the other urban legends websites.  This is an
old falsehood..  Please check thee out before yous end them on.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "lillyvine" <lillyvine@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, January 29, 2005 8:50 PM
Subject: IML: Fwd: FIRE DANGER


> Hi List I just wanted to pass this on incase your Imperial is parked in
> your garage..So would that make it Imperial related? I hope so..
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> >> Note: forward
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> >>>> PLEASE read and be advised.  This is worth
> >> passing on.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> Thought this was worth passing on: FIRE DANGER.
> >> 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 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 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 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.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
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