I think everybody should know!
A well known family lost their 25 year old son in a fire at home.
This is what happened: He graduated with MBA from University in June.
Two weeks later he went home and had lunch with his dad at home. He
then
decided to go back to clean up his room at school but the father told
him to please wait to see his mother before he goes back for a few
days.
He decided to take a nap while waiting for his mom to come home from
work. Neighbours called 911 when they saw a smoke coming out of the
house. The 25 year old son died in the three year old house.
It took several days of investigation to find out the cause of the
fire
and thus it was determined that the fire was caused by lap top on the
bed.
When a lap top is on the bed, the cooling fan does not get air to
cool
off the Hard drive and that was the actual cause of fire.
There is an uneven surface of the bed sheet which blocks the air
intake
vent below the CPU fan. If a laptop is placed on a flat surface
i.e. on
desk/table, there is a gap between the desk surface and the base of
the
casing to allow air to flow/suck in through the air intake vent
from the
CPU fan to cool of then system.
The 25 year old did not even wake up to get out of bed as he died of
carbon monoxide (CO). The reason I'm writing this to all of you is
that
most of us like using our laptops in bed. Let us all decide to make
it
a practice not to do that because the Risk is real.
Let us make it a rule not to use lap top in bed or put computer on
bed
with blankets and pillows around eeish you . . .
Broadcast this message & you may save others!!
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