Woman says this common household device nearly burned down her home
An Oregon woman no✅t to leave one common household item unchecked.
Julie Endicott, who goes by @homesteading༒mommasaga on TikTok, revealed in a recent video that she discovered a plugged-in USB-C charging cable a bl⛄anket in her house.
“Something was definitely hot. … I’m looking around, and ඣI’m freaking out because I could smell something,” Endicott explai💖ns in the video.
She said the charger was “fairly new” and that up until that point🐎, she had hardly used it.
Endicott, 𓆉who runs a farm in the countryside, tells that the faulty charger was generic and had no brand n🎉ame.
“There is no lettering or brand name on the charger. I have no idea what actual electronic device it was intended for,” she explains. “I thought any USB-C charger could be universally used for all electronics that requ♈ire a USB-C charger.”
Her son’s tablet had been plugged into it overnight and had been charging for abou❀t 12 hours.
“My son unplugged it [from the charger] in the morning and asked me to turn on his tablet, wဣhich I didn’t because we were going outside to do work,” she says. “Then it had been unplugged from the tablet and that end of the charger had been lying on top🍌 of the blanket for around four hours or more.”
Endicott was at home andꦐ looking for her purse before heading out to run errands when she sat down to respond to a text message.
“I was responding real quick when I could smell something hot,” she says. “I smelled my phone and determined it wasn’t my phone. And then I looked up from my phone and could seeꦚ smoke in the air, and it w✃as heaviest in my living room.”
Her son was in the living room at the time.
“I started checking everything that was plugged into all of the outlets,” she says. “When I made my way to the couch, there was an outlet behind the couch. I could see smoke 🐻coming out of the blanket.”
She quickly unplugged the 🌄charger and threw it outside.
“I hꦏad seen the charger sitting on the blanket earlier when I was sitting on the couch in the morning but didn’t think anything of it,” she says.
“It looked normal and there was no indication of damage. I had no idea they were that dangerous. When it started melting, it smelled like oꦏverheated electronics. Hot electronics have a particular smell, which is why I started searching all the electronics plugged into outlets in the living room.”
Endicott says she plugs all chargers into a power strip🥂 now, 𒈔and she shuts it off when it’s not in use.
“I ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚalso do not leave them near anything flammable,” she adds.