Oaklevel wrote:
Not a law but with up to 4000 RV refrigerators a year why risk one while driving...... http://cjbfire.com/RVRef-Fires.pdf
As Drew pointed out, the 4000 annual fires cited in your linked article are from all sources. The NFPA's numbers make it clear that the majority of on the road motorized RV fires are engine or driveline related. The article also points out that the refrigerator is sometimes wrongly blamed as the fire source. The fridge vents make a ready source of oxygen to fuel a fire starting from another nearby source, with the resulting burn pattern giving the appearance that the fridge was the cause. In my own coach for instance, the furnace, water heater, and stove are all within a few feet of the fridge and its vent system.
It has been found that one of the most common appliances to be blamed as cause in recreational vehicle fires is the refrigerator. Because these appliances are not well understood, many times it is determined after testing that these appliances were erroneously blamed as cause.
