Resident's 18 TVs might have caused high-rise fire
By Darren Murph 
posted July 14th 2006 9:16AM
posted July 14th 2006 9:16AM
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Picture this: you're kicked back watching several of your 18 televisions while propping your feet up on one and holding the door open with two others -- and then your room catches on fire. Strangely enough, something very similar may have happened; the precise cause of the fire that lit up Florida's Hotel Versailles -- forcing the Red Cross to relocate 150 residents -- is still being investigated, but there's no way having that many TVs plugged into a small army of power strips can be safe. When firefighters arrived, even they commented on the difficultly of extinguishing flames while wading through over a dozen CRT sets. So the next time you think about rigging up an insane multi-monitor setup, keep your protective gear close at hand.
That's sorta funny, at the same time as being sad that they had to evacuate people. I'm actually on vacation in Orlando right now, and I heard on the news that a hotel in Orange County caught on fire. I just didn't know which one... and why!!!
Miami is in Dade county, not Orange county. Different hotel, different fire.
Makes me think of the movie The Squeeze with Michael Keaton and Rae Dawn Chong.
tell that guy to stop being a bum!
Get some LCD TVs that use less electricity.
Its not that cool to have 18 CRT TVs anymore, now 18 LCD TVs??? Thats just awesome!
If this person actually had 18 ordinary-sized CRT TVs, the total current drawn probably didn't exceed 2000 watts. An electric jug sucks more juice.
A Christmas tree of cheap powerboards, if that was the case here, can indeed cause an electrical fire, but the power draw alone probably wasn't an issue.
I don't know exactly what proportion of electrical fires are caused by things beyond the control of hotel tenants (bad wiring in the walls, basically), but it's quite a lot of them. This particular independent thinker might have been guilty of nothing more than messiness.
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