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These are those plug-in air fresheners that generate a little electrical heat to make the scent disburse. As long as they are not damaged, they are highly unlikely to cause a fire.
According to a faq on the glade web page.
I have read postings on the Internet alleging that Glade® PlugIns® products have been involved in fires. Is this true?
SC Johnson recently learned that there have been postings on the Internet that have claimed that our products were involved in fires. It is important that you know that all of our PlugIns® products are safe and will not cause fires. We know this because PlugIns® products have been sold for more than 15 years and hundreds of millions of the products are being used safely.
Because we are committed to selling safe products, SC Johnson thoroughly investigated these rumors. First, we confirmed that no one had contacted SC Johnson to tell us about these fires or to ask us to investigate them. Additionally, we had a leading fire investigation expert call the fire department representative who is identified in one of the Internet postings. That fireman indicated that he has no evidence that our products had caused any fire.
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Subject: FW: Please Note !!!
Thought I would pass it on....... I received this from a friend.
Friends: My brother and his wife learned a hard lesson this last week.
Their house burned down...nothing left but ashes. They have good
insurance, so the home will be replaced and most of the contents.
That is the good news. However, they were sick when they found out
the cause of the fire. The insurance investigator sifted through the
ashes for several hours. He had the cause of the fire traced to the
master bathroom. He asked my sister-in-law what she had plugged in in
the bathroom. She listed the normal things....curling iron, blow dryer.
He kept saying to her, "No, this would be something that would
disintegrate at high temperatures." Then, my sister-in-law remembered
she had a Glade Plug-in in the bathroom. The investigator had one of
those "Aha" moments. He said that was the cause of the fire. He said
he has seen more home fires started with the plug in type room
fresheners than anything else. He said the plastic they are made
from is a THIN plastic. He said in every case there was nothing
left to prove that it even existed. When the investigator looked
in the wall plug, the two prongs left from the plug-in were still
in there. My sister-in-law had one of the plug-ins that had a small
night light built in it. She said she had noticed that the light would
dim....and then finally go out. She would walk in a few hours later,
and the light would be back on again. The investigator said that the
unit was getting too hot, and would dim and go out rather than just
blow the light bulb. Once it cooled down, it would come back on. That
is a warning sign. The investigator said he personally wouldn't have
any type of plug in fragrance device anywhere in his house. He has seen
too many burned down homes. Thought I would warn you all. I had several
of them plugged in my house.
I immediately took them all down.
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