Laptop Fire Risk!
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This information about potentially fatal fires caused by laptops was emailed to me by a friend yesterday and I post it here as a community service announcement to the fair citizens of BetterMost:
"You may have heard that a good friend of ours in Mequon lost their 25 year old son in a fire at home June 4th. This is what happened. He graduated with MBA from University two weeks earlier and came home. Had a lunch with his dad at home and decided to go back to clean up his room at school. Father told him to wait and see his mother before he goes back for a few days. He decided to take a snooze while waiting for his mom to come home from work.
Neighbors called 911 when they saw black smoke coming out of the house. Their 25 year old son Arun died in the three year old house. It took several days of investigation to find out the cause of the fire. It was determined that the fire was caused by laptop in the bed. When the laptop is on the bed, the cooling fan does not get air to cool the computer and that is what caused the fire. He did not even wake up to get out of the bed he died of smoke inhalation.
The reason I am writing this to all of you is that I have seen all of us using our laptop in bed. Let us all decide and make it a practice not to do that. Risk is real. Let us make it a rule not to use lap top in bed or put computer on bed with blankets and pillows around."
Take care, everyone, and always make sure your laptop has plenty of ventilation in future!
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