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hi all
just thought i'd share my story of what happened the night before last.
working at a large office complex in Mold, Flintshire on nights doing an EICR. about 8.30pm the security get on the radio to evacuate the building after they smelt a very strong smell of something like nail varnish remover throughout 4 floors of one of the buildings.
2 fire engines turned up in BA and an ambulance too.
i had to stand in the rain for 2 hours while they searched for the smell. eventually nothing was found and i went back in to carry on.
next day my boss had been in to investigate no power to a socket and found a 20m extension reel almost fully wound with 3 heaters and a kettle fed off it. the reel had melted causing the funny smell.
i thought overloading caused a fishy smell, not a nail varnish/acetone smell.
just thought i'd share my story of what happened the night before last.
working at a large office complex in Mold, Flintshire on nights doing an EICR. about 8.30pm the security get on the radio to evacuate the building after they smelt a very strong smell of something like nail varnish remover throughout 4 floors of one of the buildings.
2 fire engines turned up in BA and an ambulance too.
i had to stand in the rain for 2 hours while they searched for the smell. eventually nothing was found and i went back in to carry on.
next day my boss had been in to investigate no power to a socket and found a 20m extension reel almost fully wound with 3 heaters and a kettle fed off it. the reel had melted causing the funny smell.
i thought overloading caused a fishy smell, not a nail varnish/acetone smell.
