Extremely Close Call
The other night our neighbor and wife were watching TV with the electric fireplace on. All of a sudden flames shot out from behind the TV ( fireplace is below the TV). He ripped the TV off the wall an...
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bad99ram wrote:
He used water due to no other choice. If the fire had got behind the wall the camper would have been totaled. Go to you tube and do a search for 5th wheel fire. There is a video of a unit pulling into either Cabelas or Bass Pro Shop. In 6 min it was down to the frame.
He did the right thing - don't let all this chatter bother you. Unless you applied the dry chemical directly to electrical source of the problem, you were in Class A combustible space anyway you look at it. It would have benefited you to kill the main power first just to de-energize everything.
These dry chem extinguishers in the RV are there for grease laden fires on the stove to meet the code for cooking appliances. They are pretty worthless on anything else, and actually the powder can do severe damage to electrical contacts in switches and electronics, stuff that shows up as a problem after the insurance thinks they got you repaired.
Great story for awareness - those fireplaces are plagued with loose contacts from the RV factory and have caused a lot of scares!
