Post by Jenny on Oct 23, 2007 16:03:50 GMT
I have been on a study day today, one of the subjects was fire training.
Apparently one of the high risk appliances now for catching fire is the computer! The fire officer relayed the time when they attended a call to a young lad who had left his jumper sitting on top of a laptop computer which had been left on standby, consequently it overheated and caught ablaze
He said that we should all switch off appliances, but mine is hidden down beneath the desk and not convenient to get to as I guess most peoples are not. He also said they attended to a whole row of computers in an office that just popped one by one and caught fire.
How many of us leave things on standby not realising the danger
Apparently one of the high risk appliances now for catching fire is the computer! The fire officer relayed the time when they attended a call to a young lad who had left his jumper sitting on top of a laptop computer which had been left on standby, consequently it overheated and caught ablaze
He said that we should all switch off appliances, but mine is hidden down beneath the desk and not convenient to get to as I guess most peoples are not. He also said they attended to a whole row of computers in an office that just popped one by one and caught fire. How many of us leave things on standby not realising the danger
