A couple lost their 25 year old son in a fire at home on June 4th. The son who had graduated with MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison two weeks earlier had come home for a while. He had lunch with his dad at home and decided to go back to clean up his hostel room. His father told him to wait, to meet his mother, before he went back for a few days. He decided to take a nap while waiting for his mom to come back home from work. Some time later their neighbors called 911 when they saw black smoke coming out of the house.
Unfortunately, the 25 years old died in the three year old house. It took several days of investigation to find out the cause of the fire. It was determined that the fire was caused by the laptop resting on the bed. When the laptop was on the bed cooling fan did not get the air to cool the computer and that is what caused the fire. He did not even wake up to get out of the bed because he died of breathing in carbon monoxide.
The reason I am writing this to all of you is that I have seen many of us and also our sons & daughters using the laptop while in bed. Let us all decide and make it a practice not to do that. The risk is real. Let us make it a rule not to use the laptop on bed with blankets and pillows around. Please educate as many people as you can.
"Please pass to everyone you know, you might save one's life"
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My best option to all of you is buy a cooling pad for laptop it saves you from this.
sasikanth its an good idea and one more thing people should keep in their mind that while using laptop they must check out the exhaust fan window has no blockage means that window should not be closed by any means.
Deven there is thing called cooling pad which is used to keep your laptop cool and it prevents your laptop getting hot. If you ask any laptop servicing centre or the place where you have purchased your laptop there it will be available and its cost may be mostly 300rs. I think you can get it through online also
Sarala and Vikas, Thank you so much for this useful information. I have been using laptop since so many years but I also did not know about it.
You are welcome vidhimayur see by taking few precaution your precious laptop can be saved and any kind of accident can be removed as every laptop has exhaust window from where heat of laptop is puled out so while using it be sure that window is not covered by any means. You may have best electronic gadgets in India but every gadgets need some precaution.
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Tuesday, 27 December 2011 11:56
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