Dollar Store - 12/01/07 05:20 AM
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Hey folks. Hope everything is going well for everybody.
While on duty at the FD, we got a call for a fire at a local "dollar" type store. We got there and found light smoke. Turns out the staff had (smartly) put out the fire with a portable extinguisher and the breaker had worked correctly. These pics are of the back side of a bottled water cooler - the apparent point of origin. I looks like one of two possible scenarios:
Option 1: the cooler kept getting shoved up against the wall, and the standard "business appliance" cord - a straight feed, not an angled one - couldn't take the abuse any longer and shorted out in the cord
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Option 2: the cord or the receptacle was no longer making proper contact, resulting in arcing, overheating, and the eventual fire.
Stay safe guys and girls!
DougW
While on duty at the FD, we got a call for a fire at a local "dollar" type store. We got there and found light smoke. Turns out the staff had (smartly) put out the fire with a portable extinguisher and the breaker had worked correctly. These pics are of the back side of a bottled water cooler - the apparent point of origin. I looks like one of two possible scenarios:
Option 1: the cooler kept getting shoved up against the wall, and the standard "business appliance" cord - a straight feed, not an angled one - couldn't take the abuse any longer and shorted out in the cord
OR
Option 2: the cord or the receptacle was no longer making proper contact, resulting in arcing, overheating, and the eventual fire.
Stay safe guys and girls!
DougW