Norcold 1200

Ivylog wrote:
RV refer fires burn at the back of the unit, not at the front. Both plastic vents would be gone, you will be able to see the back of the refer through the side of the camper and the hole would be in the top of the slide out, not the roof of the camper. I did replace my NoCold 1200 with a home unit partly because of the fire potential but this was not a refer fire.
Sad that a working smoke detector should have saved four lives.

SCVJeff, I used to be a volunteer fireman... does that count?

sure, but there are also several here that have gone deep into some of these fires. I've seen two close up, one an Alpha at a shop and there was no indication externally, but smoke, however it got in, totaled the coach. All I could see was smoke mark from the top of the fridge. They wouldn't let me past the front door so that's all that could be seen.
There are lots of pix and stories of fridge fires that are nowhere near this catastrophic and people die, obviously from smoke inhalation. Some pix aren't even close to this, including one that had a Halon extinguisher down at the bottom, but ignition was at the top of the heat elements and it never released. Again little damage on the outside and NONE down below and the coach was totaled (story somewhere on iRV2). After reading that I bought a second Halon extinguisher mounted at the top.

At the end of the day none of us know what this fire is but there's obviously nothing in front of the fridge. I'm keeping the LP but the anhydrous ammonia cooler is gone.