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Re: Home destroyed by electrical fire (caused by malfunction in a

ransley

2008-04-02, 1:25 pm

On Apr 2, 2:07=A0am, Andy <1...@2.3> wrote:
> <http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html>
> Home destroyed by electrical fire
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> A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
> Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
> determined.
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> Honolulu Fire Department inspectors found the origin of the blaze in a
> crawl space under the home at 440 Puamamane St., according to Capt.
> Earle Kealoha.
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> Damage was estimated at $300,000 to the wooden building and $50,000 to
> contents.
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> Kamehameha Schools trustee Nainoa Thompson and his wife, Kathy Muneno,
> lived in the house but were not home at the time.

There was a video on utube years ago on a tank where the thermostat
went bad and the saftey relief failed, the tank went through the
ceiling

hallerb@aol.com

2008-04-02, 1:25 pm

On Apr 2, 9:50=EF=BF=BDam, ransley <Mark_Rans...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2:07=EF=BF=BDam, Andy <1...@2.3> wrote:
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theres a million ways to get dead,

easiet way is get in any vehicle, yet most of us do it daily..........

hallerb@aol.com

2008-04-02, 5:25 pm

On Apr 2, 2:08=EF=BF=BDpm, "S. Barker" <ichasetra...@coldmail.com> wrote:
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> "ransley" <Mark_Rans...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> There was a video on utube years ago on a tank where the thermostat
> went bad and the saftey relief failed, the tank went through the
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must of been intential, why else would one record ones hot water tank?

Tom Horne

2008-04-03, 3:25 am

> "ransley" <Mark_Ransley@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Unfortunately there is no vaccine for stupid.

Back in the mid eighties a school board plumber was trying to get a
regular water heater to produce water hot enough to meet the specs for
the cafeteria's new dish washer. He forced the heat setting past it's
limit stop and when the Temperature Pressure Relief (TPR) Valve began
venting he started over by replacing it with a pipe plug. When live
steam began coming out of the kitchen taps one of the cooks began
shouting for everyone to leave. He was a navy veteran and had a healthy
respect for the power of live steam. His warning was too late. Too
teachers and several students were killed in the resulting Boiling
Liquid Expanding Vapor Explosion or B.L.E.V.E. It blew the concrete
block wall that divided the kitchen from the cafeteria in onto the
teachers and students. The response effort was written up in Fire
Command Magazine. If I remember correctly the incident occurred in Ohio
some place.

There was a similar incident in the mid nineties involving a restaurant
in Florida I think. In that case the water heater did go through the
roof of the strip center were the restaurant was located. I don't
remember if that BLEVE caused any deaths. I think that one was written
up in Fire Engineering.
--
Tom Horne

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We're just working men and women most remarkable like you.

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