In Wedensday's Star Ledger there was a story about a fatal house fire caused by a faulty outlet.
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1156310312169680.xml&coll=1 from the story:
The culprit was an old electrical outlet in the first-floor living room, Rubbinaccio said. The outlet no longer held a tight connection with a floor lamp, and the resulting heat in the wall started the fatal fire, the prosecutor said.
[This message has been edited by wa2ise (edited 08-23-2006).]
