Tortoise heatmat starts fire

[jojodesca]

Overnight Castro Valley Garage Fire Sends Tortoises Scurrying

OH NO>>>BAY AREA!!!!!..I just saw this on the news!!!!


http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...valley-garage-fire-sends-tortoises-scurrying/

 

[Kerryann]

RE: Overnight Castro Valley Garage Fire Sends Tortoises Scurrying

That's good news.

 

[Weda737]

RE: Overnight Castro Valley Garage Fire Sends Tortoises Scurrying

Aww, you can tell she loves those torts.

 

[ShadowRancher]

RE: Overnight Castro Valley Garage Fire Sends Tortoises Scurrying

Aww she teared up, it's good to know that regular people exist who love their torts that don't live here so glad it turned out ok that could have been tragic

 

[JonahQKline]

RE: Overnight Castro Valley Garage Fire Sends Tortoises Scurrying

Smart Torts

 

[l0velesly]

RE: Overnight Castro Valley Garage Fire Sends Tortoises Scurrying

Glad the tort escaped the fire!

 

[Plowmandust77]

RE: Overnight Castro Valley Garage Fire Sends Tortoises Scurrying

She might be a postin freak! Time will tell!

 

[Cfr200]

This is an article I found in the paper today.

CASTRO VALLEY

Turtles' heating pad sparks fire

An Alameda County Fire Department firefighter was treated for minor injuries suffered in battling a garage fire Tuesday in Castro Valley that was sparked by a malfunctioning heating pad for a pair of tortoises, officials said.

The fire began in a detached garage on the 17400 block of Almond Road around 3 a.m., said Battalion Chief Dan O'Hara of the Alameda County Fire Department.
An electrical malfunction in a heating pad for two African tortoises that live in the garage caused the fire, O'Hara said. The tortoises, each about 3 feet in diameter, lumbered slowly but steadily to safety and were unharmed.

Firefighters put out the blaze within 10 minutes, O'Hara said. A firefighter was treated for heat exhaustion at a hospital and released.

- Ellen Huet


This article appeared on page C - 4 of the San Francisco Chronicle



Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/02/21/BA3D1NADSS.DTL#ixzz1n5Coimce

 

[jojodesca]

yeah it was on the news tonight..i live very close to Castro Valley...

 

[ALDABRAMAN]

RE: Overnight Castro Valley Garage Fire Sends Tortoises Scurrying

Aww, you can tell she loves those torts.

 

[Snapper925]

Good to hear all animals and firefighters were safe the garage.can.be replaced, a life cannot...

 

[Laura]

this is the second post about a heat pad fire.... hmmmm
glad they lumbered to safery and everyone is ok

 

[Merlin M]

yes I noticed it was the second story of this nature in about a week I think, and all just a few days after I stopped using a heat mat in preference for a ceramic heat bulb...
So glad no one was hurt! Although I heard a story a year or so back in the UK i think of a tortoise surviving a house fire by hiding in his shell (which is just so lucky!)