Good Morning
Yesterday we were fortunate enough to prevent a disaster by having installed smoke alarms in each of our snake rooms. If it was not for that, I could have lost all my baby snakes and some priceless ones, or even our house could have burnt down. An electrical fire started, it did trip the electricity, but too late. Luckily BV was home and when he heard what sounded like a truck that kept on reversing, he went to investigate. When he opened my snake room door it was just smoke and head high flames. Luckily we have a CO2 fire extinguisher which BV then grabbed to put out the flames.
Luckily none of my snakes got injured, none of my racks or the tubs that were in them were effected. Only my spare tubs I kept in the corner next to my rack had melted. That's the only damage. We were VERY lucky!!! If BV was not home, I would hate to think what we would have come home to
When I inspected what had happened I noticed that my good ole trusty computherm thermostat was the source of the fire. The adapter where the 2 pronged plug goes into is what caused the fire. For those of you that still make use of them, please just be careful. Possibly time for an upgrade to newer thermostats is an option. I for one have already ordered some.
Wishing you all a pleasant long weekend!!