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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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