Did this house fire REALLY start because of a turned off Air fryer OR faulty wiring?

[EFLImpudence]

Surely air-fryers should be made of non-combustible material or placed in a non-combustible enclosure.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Surely air-fryers should be made of non-combustible material or placed in a non-combustible enclosure.

The aren't combustible, it's the contents which catches fire, the grease from not cleaning them.

 

[EFLImpudence]

The aren't combustible

 

[JohnW2]

When there is no obvious cause to be found, they have a list of 'most likely suspects', to fall back on.

Indeed - and, as I wrote, 'electrical cause' seems to be at, or very close to, the top of that list.

That would be all very well if words such as "most likely" were to exist in their assertions about 'cause' - but that is often not the case. However, as I also wrote, that is probably partially 'our' fault for expecting/demanding a 'definite answer' every time!

Mind you, fires do not have a monopoly on this 'problem'. Over the years, I've quite often had a conversation with clinicians and pathologists, and a few coroners, about 'Cause of Death'. Neither a Registrar nor a coroner will accept a Death Certificate in which the Cause of Death 'certified' by an attending clinician or a pathologist (after autopsy) is qualified by "probably", "most likely" or something like that (even though that is not uncommonly the actual 'truth') yet it is very rare (and can only be done by a Coroner) for a Death Certificate to be issued which does not have an explicit (seemingly 'definite') Cause of Death.

 

[morqthana]

Do coroners have the power to reject a Cause of Death?

 

[foxhole]

Had a badly designed ‘Tower’ brand air fryer , went bang , before binning it I checked inside and found the live wire to heater element was not secured and was just touching the top of the fan spindle , eventually wearing away the sheathing until it made contact .

 

[opps]

Surely, the fire brigade can tell if the socket switch was on or off? The room doesn't look "too" bad.

With regards to their "assessments". A few years ago a mate's decking caught fire. It blew out the windows at the back of the house and even melted the guttering at the top of the house. There was a lot of cardboard and polystyrene on the decking because the was having his kitchen fitted at the time. His missus works for the fire brigade (locally). My mate suspects that they didn't blame it on the kitchen fitter (who smokes) because they knew that it would complicate the insurance claim. Instead they said it was probably the summer sunlight being focused through a glass object somewhere nearby. Once the insurance company received the cause of fire report, they actioned the repair work. From my point of view, I got to repaint the same room again and put in non-mates rates the second time.