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Home destroyed by electrical fire (caused by malfunction in a tankless electric water heater) Andy 04-02-2008
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Posted by Andy on April 2, 2008, 3:07 am
<http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html>
Home destroyed by electrical fire

A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
determined.

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.

Damage was estimated at $300,000 to the wooden building and $50,000 to
contents.

Kamehameha Schools trustee Nainoa Thompson and his wife, Kathy Muneno,
lived in the house but were not home at the time.

Posted by Robert Allison on April 2, 2008, 9:23 am
Andy wrote:
> <http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html>
> Home destroyed by electrical fire
>
> A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
> Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
> determined.
>
> 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.
>
> Damage was estimated at $300,000 to the wooden building and $50,000 to
> contents.
>
> Kamehameha Schools trustee Nainoa Thompson and his wife, Kathy Muneno,
> lived in the house but were not home at the time.


From:

http://burnsurvivor.com/injury_examples_waterheaterfires.html

Water Heater Fires

According to the Consumers Product Safety Commission, fires
involving gas water heaters result in 316 injuries and 17 deaths
per year. A gas water heater can be located in a garage or
utility room where it draws in combustion air near ground level.
If a hydrocarbon such as gasoline is spilled in the vicinity of
the water heater, a fire is extremely likely.
_________________

That is why I like my tankless mounted way up on the wall at
about eye level. Not to mention outside the house entirely.

--
Robert Allison
Rimshot, Inc.
Georgetown, TX

Posted by ransley on April 2, 2008, 10:50 am
> <http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html>
> Home destroyed by electrical fire
>
> A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
> Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
> determined.
>
> 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.
>
> Damage was estimated at $300,000 to the wooden building and $50,000 to
> contents.
>
> 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

Posted by hallerb@aol.com on April 2, 2008, 12:18 pm
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> > <http://starbulletin.com/2008/04/01/news/briefs.html>
> > Home destroyed by electrical fire
>
> > A malfunction in a tankless electric water heater caused a fire
> > Thursday that destroyed a Niu Valley home, firefighters have
> > determined.
>
> > 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.
>
> > Damage was estimated at $300,000 to the wooden building and $50,000 to
> > contents.
>
> > Kamehameha Schools trustee Nainoa Thompson and his wife, Kathy Muneno,
> > lived in the house but were not home at the time.
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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
> ceiling- Hide quoted text -
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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..........


Posted by S. Barker on April 2, 2008, 3:08 pm
Not likely, if even possible.

s


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



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