Fwd: LAPTOP awareness information - very Important pls readdddd

[debahuti brahmachari]

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From: vrinda oberai <vrinda...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:18 PM
Subject: Fwd: LAPTOP awareness information - Important
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From: sahiba sachdev <sachdev...@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 12:13 PM
Subject: LAPTOP awareness information - Important
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Thought of sharing this critical piece of info on Laptop Safety. Pls share it with as many people as possible.

LAPTOP awareness information.

 A  family in Mequon lost their son Arun Gopal  in a freak fire accident at home June 4th. This is exactly what happened.
Arun had graduated with MBA from University of Wisconsin-Madison just two weeks earlier and had came home from the campus for a day.  
He had lunch with his dad at home and decided to go back to to clean up his room at the campus. However, his dad told him to wait and see his mother before returning to the campus as she was due back from work in a couple of hours. He decided to take a snooze while waiting for his mom while his dad went out. 

Neighbors called 911 when they saw black smoke coming out of the house. The 25 year old Arun died in the three year old house. It took several days of investigation to find out the cause of the fire. It was determined that the fire was caused by laptop in the bed.
When the laptop is on the bed, the area below it is blocked and the cooling fan does not get air to cool it  and that is what caused the fire.
Arun did not even wake up to make any effort to get out of bed as he died of massive carbon monoxide inhalation. The purpose of this "forward" is to make aware that most of us use our laptop in bed and often go to sleep with it next to us. Please make it a practice not to do that.

The risk is very real. Make it a rule not to use the laptop in bed

 

 

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Thanks & Regards
Vrinda Oberai

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DEBAHUTI BRAHMACHARI
M PHIL
Centre for the Study of Law & Governance
Jawaharlal Nehru University

[Vibhor Gupta]

I always keep a small wooden block or plastic bowl or a plastic CD case as a laptop stand on my bed..this never make the it warm.
still i keep checking it ...it sometime causes fan burning or laptop malfunctioning too
cheers

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Vibhor Gupta
National Centre of Applied Human Genetics
(www.ncahg.org)
Lab no. 332
School of Life Science
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi -110067
India

[Chitrasen Gautam]

Thank You  Deba for this important information , earlier i did like this but now i am using glass board and fixed a specific place and follow some caution....:)

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Thanks and Regards-

Chitrasen Gautam
Research Scholar
Centre for the Study of Law and Governance
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi 110 067
India.
Mobile: +91-9968531191
Email:chitrase...@gmail.com

[Garima Dalal]

well there are laptop base available in the mkt to use for the same purpose... i saw them at croma - the electric gadget shop all over delhi n these base are quiet reasonable. It is indeed true that such disasters come unplanned, so we should not take our lives for granted.
God bless
G