Old wiring devices

[David Roper]

Grandma was very lucky! An acquaintance from years back whose house a lot us visited frequently had a panel full of 30 amp plug fuses. I knew very well what a bad idea this was (I suspect she bought the house with them in there) but I never spoke up about it. I think I figured I'd be dismissed as obsessing over the kind of things only a nerd obsesses over.

About a year and a half later an electrical fire gutted the house in the middle of the night. Fortunately the only fatality was the cat.