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Dr Zero:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on August 07, 2009, 02:04:42 am ---
--- Quote from: Dr Zero on August 06, 2009, 11:25:37 am ---You never know when or what can happen my little one came to our room one morning saying there was no power. We checked all the breakers nothing wrong but half the other end of the house had no power. Spent a couple of days going from outlet to outlet checking wiring till a fluke happened and while unplugging a working outlet we got voltage on a dead circuit. We traced the fault finally from that outlet to a unused outlet behind a bookcase and when we took the cover off the insulation was gone (burnt) at least 2 inches into the wall.
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Oh snap, I forgot all about our socket. We have a glass display case with a wall wart and connectors. My son kept pulling on the connectors and sticking things in them so I just pulled the wiring harness from the wall wart and left the wart there. My Fiance did some spring cleaning and pulled the display case out and noticed soot discoloration on the wall plate around the wart. Since I was busy trying to deal with our son and clean elsewhere, I put it off.

Time to check it now.

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Be sure to check that!


Donation sent, I wish the best for them I know this is a very bad time.

Ginsu Victim:
You guys are all great! Keep 'em comin'!

shardian:

--- Quote from: SavannahLion on August 07, 2009, 01:58:23 am ---
--- Quote from: Ginsu Victim on August 06, 2009, 08:11:10 am ---
--- Quote from: Level42 on August 06, 2009, 06:19:26 am ---this shows why you should have smoke detectors and extinguishers.

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No one was home when the fire started, so what good do those serve at that point?

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If it was a converted warehouse, wouldn't it have had a sprinkler system? I thought they were required installs on commercial properties.

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Even if it did have a sprinkler system at some point, it probably was out of service. Businesses in commercial buildings get Sprinkler systems because the Fire Marshall requires it for occupation, and/or insurance requires it to insure.

Odds are they could have gotten insurance if it had a sprinkler system, but sprinkler systems are not cheap in a structure like that.

If it did have a sprinkler system and was an older building, it was probably a dry system and the pipe had rotted out. The systems have to be inspected yearly - which costs money.

In short, if there wasn't a business permit on file at the city then the Fire Marshall had no reason to check for occupancy, and thus, a working Fire Protection system.

Ginsu Victim:

--- Quote ---Odds are they could have gotten insurance if it had a sprinkler system
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Well, the fact that it wasn't zoned for residential use is the biggest culprit in not being able to get insurance.

I don't know about a sprinkler system, but with a collection like that, the last thing I would want is a small fire setting off the sprinklers and ruining everything. Of course, now a big fire has come along and did it, plus a LOT of water.

Troy posted pics of the damage. It's just devastating.
http://forum.okcoin-op.com/index.php?topic=3464.msg26905#msg26905

Level42:
Sprinkler is only used in buildings with either lots of people or really big buildings, or those with high risks.

Sprinkler also would have completely totalled the machines. Sprinkler systems are _extremely_ expensive.

There are alternatives that could have put out the fire and save the machines but for a person or a family, these are simply way too costly.

In all honesty I think it's totally irresponsible to live in a building you don't have a permit for. IMHO they should have lived somewhere else where they could get insurance for the home and the inventory of the home.

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