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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

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

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