Fire at the office

Despite all of the warnings around VBC to only use power strips with CE or UL embedded in the plastic my office has numerous strips that were purchased "on the economy" (the Hajji shops).

This morning one of the O-3s was looking for a strip to plug in his personal computer to update his ipod software. Queue the smell of smoke and an electrical fire. The Division safety folks were called in to take a look at things and delivered the sage advice that "we shouldn't do that again."

Noted.