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The first fire was reported at 9:18 p.m. Neighbors noticed the flames coming out of a home at 105 Slopes Court in Boone. The fire started in a doghouse, where the owner had placed a heating lamp. The blaze spread onto the deck and into a portion of the home before it was noticed. The owner, Jennie Wulfing, was not at home.
Upon arrival, firefighters found neighbors throwing buckets of water onto the fire in attempt to prevent spreading. Boone Fire Marshal Ronnie Marsh said they did an excellent job in keeping the fire in check while firefighters were en route.
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The fire caused approximately $40,000 in damage to the house.
see my video for how neatly the SmokeShutoff power strip hides above kitchen counters to protect against this type fire. Just mount it on the bottom of the upper cabinets.
Hot fire caused extensive heat, smoke damage to home in northwest Bend (Bend Fire and Rescue photo)
Fire traced to problem with coffee pot
By Barney Lerten and Tony Fuller, KTVZ.COM
A northwest Bend home sustained $150,000 damage Thursday afternoon from a hot, smoky fire that investigators said likely was caused by a kitchen counter coffee pot that shorted out or overheated.
Firefighters responded around 12:45 p.m. when workers across the street saw fire and smoke coming from the kitchen windows of a two-story home owned by Jay and Arianna Moore at 2540 NW Brickyard St., said Bend Deputy Fire Marshal Dan Derlacki.
I think there’s a big market for protecting against fires caused by heat lamps and aquarium equipment.
By JENNA BUZZACCO (Contact)
Originally published 6:59 p.m., Thursday, November 20, 2008
Updated 6:59 p.m., Thursday, November 20, 2008
Naples firefighters responded to a Royal Harbor home Wednesday afternoon to find a 50-gallon glass container smoldering in a small building behind the home. Rex, a lizard native to sub-Saharan Africa, lives in the container and officials believe a heat lamp keeping him warm fell over and sparked some newspaper in his tank.
Though there was no fire, smoke filled the building.
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Naples firefighter Travis Wright stepped up to the challenge, DiMaria said. A reptile lover himself, Wright took over resuscitation efforts, even holding the lizard’s mouth open while Naples firefighter and paramedic Joe Fetzer cleared the animal’s airway.
Those could be wired into my SmokeShutoff power strip. Would save a lot of claims, and maybe some lives.
A baseboard heater caused a fire that destroyed one room of a Myrtle Beach motel and displaced five families, officials said.
The fire was reported at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Aquarius Family Motel building No. 4 on 12th Avenue North. When firefighters arrived flames were visible from the third floor roof of the building near Chester Street.
A fire broke out in a unit at Mooloolaba on Meta Street. All that was visible to the street below was the blackened windows, but investigators said the 9-year-old inhabitant was lucky to survive. Photo: Cade Mooney/179514
From the outside, the only indication of a fire was two blackened window frames on the top floor.
However, investigators inside the Mata Street townhouse in Mooloolaba know just how lucky the nine-year-old occupant was to escape with his life
A short in a heat lamp caused a barn in Gaston to go up in flames on Wednesday.The fire happened near county roads 1200 North and 600 West.
According to Gaston Fire Chief Mike Delaney, the heat lamp destroyed the barn.The purpose of the lamp inside the barn was to keep the family dog warm from the cold.
Four puppies and a rabbit were killed Sunday, in a pole barn fire that appears to have been touched off by a warming lamp intended to keep them comfortable.
Northfield Township Fire Capt. Jay Keine said firefighters were called to 6396 Nollar Road at 4:39 p.m., and found the front of the 30-foot-by-50-foot barn in flames.
….Keine said the fire began in exactly the area where the warming lamp was operated.
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He estimated damage to the barn and contents at about $50,000.
Space heater blamed for sparking two-alarm Trenton fire
by Michael Ratcliffe/The Times
Tuesday November 18, 2008, 10:48 PM
TRENTON — A space heater sparked the two-alarm blaze early Tuesday morning that gutted a Dickinson Street home and left a woman and her two sons homeless, fire department officials said.
It was the second serious fire in East Trenton in less than 24 hours.
Battalion Chief John Gribbin said the blaze started in a bedroom on the second floor of a 2-1/2-story home located in the middle of a row of three attached houses. He said investigators believe a space heater somehow ignited bedding materials and other combustibles.
I wonder why no smoke alarms sounded. I bet it was a nice condo. Using my power strip on that aquarium stand could have prevented this fire. It would have shut off the pump and sounded an alarm loud enough to summon security.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
There was water seeping out onto the patio of Mary Wallace’s third-floor unit in the Windmere condominium before fire fighters arrived Saturday night to battle a blaze.
That’s because the fire reported just before 9 p.m. resulted from the overheating of a motor used for a large aquarium. The motor caught fire, the aquarium melted and water went everywhere.
“It caused a lot of heat and smoke damage to the entire unit,” Lt. Nick Alvaro of the South Palm Beach police department, said of the fire. The building, at 4200 S. Ocean Blvd., was evacuated.
John Boot, a resident of the 18-unit condominium and also its manager, had noticed water dripping from the balcony and went to investigate. He opened the door with his master key after seeing just a hint of smoke at the entrance.
Hot fire caused extensive heat, smoke damage to home in northwest Bend (Bend Fire and Rescue photo)
