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Clothes Dryer Fire Prevention in Condos
Clothes Dryer Fire Prevention in Condos Randy Mason Dryerfighters
CLOTHES DRYER FIRE PREVENTION IN CONDOS North American-style clothes dryers are responsible for thousands of yearly home fires. Highly combustible lint is created during the drying process. It’s not the lint you see when you clean the dryer lint screen. This lint accumulates where you can’t see it. IT’S HIDDEN, OUT OF SIGHT!
CLOTHES DRYER FIRE PREVENTION: Carefully removing screws and panels from the dryer cabinet provides access to the dryer interior, exposing the hidden fire hazardous lint buildup everywhere inside the dryer cabinet. Many electrical components are ignition sources of lint: moving parts such as a motor, pulleys, and belt create heat and friction, with lint buildup in proximity to the heating coil/element, which becomes red-hot like your toaster element when the dryer is operating. continued…
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