Re: Why deliberately shorting equipment to blow breakers might be a bad idea . . .

["E. Lee Dickinson" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert Green" <ROBERT_GREEN1963@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>(Quoted)
> Hours before a fire killed 10 people in a group home for the mentally ill
> and disabled on Nov. 27 in Anderson, a maintenance worker trying to repair
> a
> furnace short-circuited wiring in the attic, where fire investigators said
> they believed that the fire started. The worker told investigators that he
> did not know which circuit breaker operated the furnace and that he
> deliberately tripped the system, according to a report from the Missouri
> Fire Safety Division. The wiring may have become overloaded, the report
> staid. The fire marshal said the home did not have sprinklers. The report
> was obtained by The Associated Press under an open-records law.

Imagine how many more people might have died if the fire had occurred from
an unintentional fault. Maybe no one would have died if it had never been
shorted, but there was obviously a deeper problem than an electrician with a
screwdriver.