You are exactly right. From what I hear the most home fires around here that aren't in the kitchen start around the dryer.
Lint is flammable, dryer sheets are flammable and both are in ready supply around most dryers.
A few months ago I was going to work around 4:30 in the morning. I noticed the dryer was still running. That was odd cause we had went to bed 8 hours earlier. It turned out that the dryer receptacle had failed. One leg had resistance and began heating up. When this happened, it melted the phony baloney receptacle cover. I had a fire in the recepatacle that moved outside the recep and onto the wall. The wall was concrete block and the fire stopped there. The bad leg burned out and stopped the timer. The motor was on the other leg and continued to run.
Things working against me. The recep was installed when the house was built (1984). It was a cheap design with alot of plastic. It was not grounded so when the insulation broke down, the breaker did not trip. There had been an abundance of lint and dryer sheets.
In my corner was the concrete wall and the fact that the dryer and dryer area had been cleaned recently.
Now it is a large metal box with a metal cover. The box is grounded, the cover is grounded, and the recep has been changed out for a grounded 4 wire model. Been keeping the lint cleaned up, too.
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