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DH has forward this to me suggesting I share it around. I personally do not use plug in air freshners, tried one once and it gave me a migraine...

Liz

HOME 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 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. Theinvestigator 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 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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Liz Cork
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This is almost word for word from SNOPES.

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"Liz Cork" wrote in news:d5fnq2$rk1$ snipped-for-privacy@nwrdmz01.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com:

i highly recommend Snopes, the Urban Legends Reference:

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this particular legend has been circulating since 2004.

recall of their Glade brand 'Extra Outlet Scented Oil Air Fresheners' (a plug-in air freshener which included its own outlet so that consumers wouldn't have to give up an outlet space to use it) because they had found a loose connection inside the extra outlet that might pose a fire hazard. There had been no actual reports of fires property damage associated with the product prior to its recall, however:

fresheners sold between 1992 and July 1994 as a "precaution" after receving 600 complaints, including "12 allegations about the fresheners being involved in fires."

about a possible connection between plug-in air fresheners and home fires, but nothing conclusive was determined. Phillips said the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) showed them "scores of reports from consumers, chronicling fire hazards associated with plug-in air fresheners from various manufacturers," but the CPSC also acknowledged "some fires attributed to air fresheners may be caused by faulty electrical wiring." WABC looked at two instances where air fresheners were suspected in house fires, but the causes of the fires had not been definitively established. (Both cases involved not Glade brand products, but Wallflower, a plug-in air freshener manufactured by the White Barn Candle Company.)

in air fresheners pose a significantly higher fire hazard than other electrical devices. Although fire officials will often recommend that consumers not use plug-in air fresheners, it could be the case that air fresheners are mistakenly being blamed for fires started by other causes (such as faulty wiring), just as cell phones are often falsely cited as the cause of gas station fires attributable to other causes (usually static electricity).

site for their Glade brand products:

the Internet that have claimed that our products were involved in fires. It's important that you know that all of our PlugIns® products are safe and will not cause fires. We know this because PlugIns® products have been sold for more than 15 years and hundreds of millions of the products are being used safely.

products, SC Johnson further investigated these rumors. Internally, we confirmed that no one had contacted SC Johnson to tell us about these fires or to ask us to investigate them. Additionally, we were able to have a fire investigation expert call the fire department representative who is identified in one of the Internet postings. That fireman indicated that he has no evidence that our products had caused any fire.

all of our PlugIns® products have been thoroughly tested by Underwriters Laboratories and other independent laboratories and our products meet or exceed safety requirements.

Safety Commission to investigate allegations that PlugIns® products have been involved in fires and CPSC has been satisfied that there is no basis for these allegations.

is committed to providing top quality products that can be used safely in homes and we want to reassure you that PlugIns® products can be used with complete confidence.

please check your rumors before passing them on. thanks. lee

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enigma

In article , Liz Cork of BT Openworld uttered

It's an urban myth. Thanks all the same.

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She who would like to be obeye

your welcome.

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Liz Cork

it was passed on in good faith

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Liz Cork

As I read the Snopes information, it says Status: _Undetermined_ (as opposed to a categorical _True_ or _False_). Doesn't that mean Snopes is not giving a definitive answer?

Doreen in Alabama

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In article , Doreen of EarthLink Inc. --

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uttered>>As I read the Snopes information, it says Status: _Undetermined_ (as >opposed to a categorical _True_ or _False_). Doesn't that mean Snopes >is not giving a definitive answer?But if you read what they have to say, they state in several places that none of the supposed incidents are substantiated. The product recalls were in the 1990s, there didn't seem to be *anything* more recent than 2002.

P&G are a UK company, and I don't ever recall anything in the press here about those gadgets being implicated in house fires. Mind you, I don't buy gimmicks like that anyway - if there's a pong I track it down and deal with it.

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She who would like to be obeye

Yes, I read every word. But I do think there's a difference between 'it's an urban legend' and 'it hasn't been proven'.

Although I am as irritated as anyone about all the false warnings circulated on the internet, Liz's post and the Snopes page will keep me from ever using the plug-in fresheners, just in case...at this stage of life, I'm not sure we'd have the heart to rebuild and start over. The kids might just have to go ahead and chuck us in an old folks' home (a _little_ prematurely)!

I didn't know P&G was a UK company. Interesting.

Doreen in Alabama

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In article , Doreen of EarthLink Inc. --

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uttered>>I didn't know P&G was a UK company. Interesting.>

I'm going potty - Glade is johnson and johnson - but they're (originally) brit too, aren't they?

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She who would like to be obeye

In article , She who would like to be obeyed once every Preston Guild of no.spam uttered

And if I had a brain today I'd be dangerous! Sorry folks - I meant SC Johnson - and I'm not sure where the parent company belong

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She who would like to be obeye

No doubt that it was, just please check snopes.com first.

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Angrie.Woman

Me, too, but it was DH. He eats in restaurants sometimes.

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Pogonip

A terrible amount of economic damage can be done to a perfectly fine company when unsubstantiated rumors are passed around on the internet or in meat space, "good faith" or not.

SH

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Sarah

Doreen wrote in news:lkMee.4901$ snipped-for-privacy@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net:

it means that Glade plug ins have never been implicated as cause of a house fire, but some off brand (White Candle or somesuch) actually were. so status:undetermined in this case, i think, means that some types of plug in air fresheners *may* be able to start a fire... but Glade isn't one you need to be excessively concerned about. the Glade ones have been UL approved, which means that if they are used following the instructions, they are safe. lee

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enigma

Good Faith takes but a Minute to check out and checking will keep these false accusations and rumours from being propagated over and over and over. Also keeps many of us from looking like fools when we do not take the time to check.

Here is another good site to check these things out. Also some good reading if you have time. Take a gander at the 2 striped Telamonia toilet seat spider which is re circulating again. When it first appeared in l999 it was the deadly 'Butt spider" Who writes these things anyway....ggggg

urbanlegends.about.com

Several years ago on one of the National News programmes the reporter interviewed David Emery of Urban Legends and he said our society is obsessed with stories of common articles causing catastrophic tragedy. He also stated that most if not all would be reported by news programmes before they hit the internet so is you don't see it on the news then question the e-mail. Often they have been traced back, when this is possible, to other manufacturers desire to 'bash' the competitors product. Mr. Emery said the Urban Legend sites are some of the most accessed ones on the internet. It does appear that someone it paying attention and checking the wild stories out. Emery also said a real tip off that its a hoax is the statement "tell all your friends"........

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This is the only real one I ever got:

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911 doesn't work in the UK - not sure what a boohoo truck is either - but if you ring three nines here and ask for an ambulance to deliver you a plaster you'll wind up in court as well as hospital! LOL!
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