• weeeeum@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    A fire almost started in my garage a month ago. I was using this outlet splitter that had a bending hinge, and I think the wires wore out or something there because it started burning but fortunately the breaker popped. If it kept slowly burning before the breaker could activate, then this and 3 other homes would have burned down.

    Crazy how we trust, all of the hundreds of things we plug into the wall, not to burn our house down.

    • Sasnak @lemmy.blahaj.zoneOP
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      1 day ago

      We’d never even gone up there. It was wild and extremely terrifying. Every little sound makes me think it’s gonna happen again