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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whitelightning777" data-source="post: 125809" data-attributes="member: 26980">See the above article that was in an earlier post.<a href="https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/News-and-media/Press-Room/News-releases/2010/Space-heaters-involved-in-79-percent-of-fatal-home-heating-fires" target="_blank">https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/News-and-media/Press-Room/News-releases/2010/Space-heaters-involved-in-79-percent-of-fatal-home-heating-fires</a>I'll put it here again.   There are plenty of other like it.I have no doubt that tobacco and cooking present problems as well.  The creepy thing with the heaters is that these are fires in the dead of winter in severe cold, where it shouldn't be all that easy to start a fire in the first place.If you're running them in a normal temperature instead of extreme cold, it's that much closer to the ignition point.  All things being equal, and I'm just guessing here, it should be easier to start a fire at 70 degrees then 7 degrees all things being equal.-----------The other thing to consider is insurance company studies on property damage and loss of life for the basis for all the bans on space heaters. Real numbers back it up.What about people who risk fines or evictions for using these and walking away? It's not a universal solution, or a safe one.</blockquote>