Want a house fire? Buy government mandated CFL bulbs

Russ Steele

 
I have written about the problems of broken CFL and mercury poisoning in my monthly column for the CABPRO Report here.  How we are learning that these bulbs are causing fires.  Here are some samples for a report in the American Thinker,  The CFL Fraud  by Edmund Contoski.  You might want to reconsider using these dangerous bulbs in your home.

"A compact fluorescent light (CFL) on the ceiling burst and started a fire in a home in Hornell, N.Y. December 23, 2010.  "Those are the lights everybody's been telling us to use," said Joe Gerych, Steuben County Fire Inspector.  "It blew up like a bomb. It spattered all over."  Fire Chief Mike Robbins said the blaze destroyed the room where the fire started and everything in it, and the rest of the house suffered smoke and water damage." Link

Remember these a the bulbs that CARB and EPA are mandating that your use in your home to save the planet form global warming, but they do not have much to say about the impact the growing number of hosue fires caused by these bulbs are having.

""My GE 20W Helical bulb in my 1/2 bathroom caught on fire on 5/3/10.  The bulb snapped and glowed very brightly then caught on fire....The bulb was suppose to last 5 years but it was only about a year or so old.  I tried replacing it with a GE 26W bulb and the same thing happened immediately." -- Chantelle of Danville, PA May 15, 2010.  Link

 "My 80 year old mother turned on her reading lamp and the bulb exploded and the lamp shade caught fire.  She unpluged the lamp from the wall and the fire went out thank God." -- M. of Lahaina, HI March 30, 2010  Link"

Want a house fire? Use an EPA approved and mandated Chinese CFL light bulb. Read about the rest of the CFL fires here.