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When my oldest son was 3months old, I was sterilizing bottle nipples--in boiling water. (new mom, thought the dishwasher wasn't good enough) I took my son down to the family room, fed him, and was playing on the internet when the smoke alarms went off.
I ran upstairs-- I had forgotten to turn off the burner, I boiled all the water out of the pan, the latex nipples caught fire. I threw water on the flames--flames went away but there was a ton of smoke.
The fireman had to come to the house. It melted the front off of our over the range microwave, the back of the stove melted, there was smoke on everything-- whole upstairs had to be repainted because of the sute.
And burning latex stinks. We had to stay in a hotel for a week while the smell left, and the house was put back together.
After a $12,000 home owners claim our house (that was one year old) was like new again!!!
Don't ever leave ANYTHING unattended in the kitchen!!!
-wendi
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