Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Overheated laptop ignited blaze that burned rural Manitoba home to ground


Darren Bernhardt · CBC News

     The house was completely destroyed in the fire. (Submitted by Joyska Tkachyk)


An overheated laptop ignited papers on a desk and erupted into a fire that left nothing but ashes where a family's home once stood in a small southeastern Manitoba community.

The cause of the fire, which happened Nov. 21 in Sundown — just over 100 kilometres southeast of Winnipeg — was released this week by the provincial fire commissioner's office. The official wording cited the case as "accidental, due to an overheated laptop igniting nearby combustibles."

Joyska Tkachyk, whose home it was, told CBC News the computer was charging on a desk near paperwork — something done regularly by many people...https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/overheated-laptop-house-fire-manitoba-1.4922168

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