Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Do not use laptop in bed

(Courtesy of Wen's email)


Please take time to read!! Very important!!! ‎​​


Arun Gopal Ratnam, 25, died in a fire at home on June 4th.


He graduated with MBA from University of Wisconsin-Madison two weeks earlier and came home. Had a lunch with his dad at home and decided to go back to to clean up his room at school. Father told him to wait and see his mother before he goes back for a few days.


He decided to take a snooze while waiting for his mom to come home from work.


Neighbors called 911 when they saw black smoke coming out of the house.


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 lap top in the bed.


When the lap top is on the bed cooling fan does not get air to cool the computer and that is what caused the fire. He did not even wake up to get
out of the bed he died of carbon monoxide.


Let us all decide and make it a practice not to use lap top in bed or put computer on bed with blankets and pillows around.