Fire! Fire! Fire!

Posted by Sarah on January 24, 2010

I went downstairs to feed the fish this morning, and I noticed that the power for the 75 gallon tank was off.

We checked the plugins, and the fuses, then I realized that the powercord plugin had been reset.

As soon as I turned it on I saw tiny little flames behind the switch, and I started to see smoke.

I turned if off immediately (ok, I yelled for Jeff too) and then he unplugged everything and switched it to another cord.

The plugin had turned yellow around that end and smelled like smoke.

We aren’t really sure what happened, but we are assuming that water had gotten into the outlets somehow.

That tank is so far away from our bathrooms that the python doesn’t reach all that well, so Jeff carries buckets of water down for it.

This time we’ll be placing the outlet on the wall, so I hope we don’t have that problem again.

Have you ever had anything like that happen?

This is the second time this year we’ve had something catch fire.

Jeff changed the batteries in a little flashlight he got as a gift when he bought something else, and the battery casing stared to smoke and melt.

It’s a good thing there’s lots of snow outside!