Near Miss

A very strange thing happened today - the plug of our electric heater, which is always, plugged in on a timer, decided to short out and the fuse inside exploded. We were in the living room of the mobile home when it happened. I heard a sizzling and crackling and was convinced that the tele was about to explode (it was on standby). I unplugged the extension lead and left it at that. When I checked the tele, freesat etc they were all fine but the heater wasn't working. When we looked at the plug of the heater we could see a small burn mark. When we opened it the whole of the inside of the plug was blackened and burned. Daithi believes that the wires weren't being held in place properly and had moved loose from connections. I can't believe that a fire didn't start. And we are so lucky that it didn't happen when we weren't present or during the night! Check those plugs!!!!