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Abstract Picture this. On a freezing December day, a few days before Christmas, 2008 an electrical fire started in the basement utility room. The burn damage was so severe at the origin site that the exact cause could not be determined, but the theory is that a transfer switch connected to an emergency power generator started the fire when an auto test series was initiated. The fire quickly spread to the ceiling of the basement utility room, which was not fire rated, and burned the floor out of the kitchen above, at the center of the two-story home. In a very short time, the kitchen collapsed into the basement. The fire began shortly after the five family members left for work and school and was discovered by a worker who arrived to complete a bathroom remodel. Thick black smoke poured through every vent to the outside. By the time firefighters gained control of the blaze, the 3,000-sq-ft house and everything in it was ruined. If this image conjures a big black carbon cloud for you, imagine what the famil...
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