Winter has dealt another blow to several families who were already struggling when a frozen pipe recently burst at a transitional building in Manchester.

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The Way Home has been helping families pick up the pieces of their lives for 26 years. The Manchester nonprofit is a critical link in managing homelessness in New Hampshire, but it has been shut down for more than a week since a pipe burst.

Water flooded the ceiling, walls and floors, and all of the electrical wiring was ruined.

Phone lines have been down for days, and six families relying on the facility have been displaced. They are now staying at a hotel for what could be weeks.

"Down on my luck is an understatement," said displaced tenant Mariah Roux. "It just keeps getting worse for me at this point."

"It was very devastating seeing them try to take out what they had left," said Diane Pitts, program director for The Way Home. "They needed to be homeless to come in here, and here they are, homeless again. So it's a double whammy for them, so helping them through that process is rewarding."

A storage trailer holds the belongings that weren't ruined in the flood.

Roux said it has been a rough year for her and her 12-year-old son. They have been living at The Way Home since July as they try to start over.

"Once we're done here at the hotel, I've got to scramble and try to find a place for me and my kids to stay in the meantime," Roux said. "Hopefully, I'll be able to get a job and just go into an apartment."

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LEE COUNTY, Ia. (WGEM) - Only a shell of a house stands after firefighters spent an hour and half putting out a fire Monday that likely was sparked by space heaters.Firefighters say the renters were heating the home with four space heaters plugged into extension cords.

"Too many space heaters on stuff gets the wiring hot and it's not a real safe way to be heating your home," Denmark Fire Chief Neal Gathers said.

Gathers says his firefighters and the Weaver Fire Department were called to 1950 295th Ave., north of Fort Madison, at 3:40 a.m. Gathers said when crews arrived the two-story home was fully-engulfed on the north side of the home, with fire coming out of windows on both floors.

A mother and daughter were in the home when the fire started, and the family dog woke them up.The women made it out okay, but it was a close call and a reminder of how dangerous space heaters can be.

"It's not a good idea," Quincy electrician Steve Edgar said. "In fact most people are not aware that anything with a heating element, such as a space heater, usually take considerably more energy than what they think it does, so it's very easy to overload a circuit."

Edgar says the age of the house could have added to the problem because many older homes have outdated wiring.He advises that anyone using a space heater does not plug it into an extension cord.

"Extension cords are meant to be temporary at best, and when you have something that takes as much energy as a space heater it's not a good idea to leave them there permanently," Edgar said.

"I'd say we had the fire under control in about an hour and a half," Gathers said. "It took a little longer. The cold weather makes things a little tougher but everything went really smooth today. We didn't have any trucks freeze up, so we were lucky on that and nobody got hurt, so that was the most important thing."

Gathers said the mother and daughter went to a family member's home in West Burlington, Iowa.The house's owner says he does not plan to rebuild.

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Posted February 20, 2015, 10:22 PM Updated February 20, 2015, 10:22 PM

SAN ANTONIO - Jeff Adams, president of the San Antonio Association of Real Estate Inspectors, said it's time for residents to become more aware of a safety issue that literally surrounds their home.

Corrugated stainless steel tubing gained popularity in the 1990s, as a cheaper and more versatile option for carrying natural gas into homes.

"This product is cheap and easy to run," said Adams. "It's flexible. Just roll it out, run it off and cut it."

CSST was originally created for areas prone to earthquakes because of its flexibility.

But Adams said its cost made its popularity grow across the country, including Texas.

But he warned that if not installed correctly, the line can be rupture due to electrical arcing from lightning strikes or other electrical problems in the home.

"There's a lot of issues with this product being energized period," he said. "Do a complete inspection of everything. This product can't be in contact with any type of wiring, it cannot be in contact with anything that can be energized."

Rod Sanchez, director of the city of San Antonio's development services, said most homeowners should not face serious issues as long as the tubing was installed correctly.

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MASON CITY | Smoke in the attic of a Mason City home Friday was caused by a wiring issue.

The Mason City Fire Department responded to a report of smoke in the yellow one-story home at 1209 S. Carolina Ave. at about 2:45 p.m.

Mason City Fire Department Capt. Jack Odegaard said the owner and occupant of the home, David Bemis, was in the back yard and smelled smoke, and also smelled smoke when he went into the garage.

Firefighters found insulation smoldering in the attic and removed insulation and debris from the house.

Odegaard said the smoldering insulation was caused by arcing wiring.

Firefighters dumped attic insulation into the snow of the front yard. Other items from the house were put in the driveway.

Officials say no one was hurt.

A police car and fire engines blocked the street in front of the house while crews worked inside the home.

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Posted: Wednesday, February 18, 2015 7:00 am

Faulty wiring blamed for home fire in McLean

Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department units responded on Feb. 9 at around 1:45 p.m. to a fire at a single-family home at 1914 Kirby Road in McLean.

Firefighters upon arrival encountered heavy smoke coming from the roof of the two-story home. Fire crews conducted an aggressive fire attack and quickly extinguished the fire.

There was moderate damage to both the first and second floors of the home, officials said. No one was home when the fire broke out. Additionally, there were no smoke alarms in the home. Both of the occupants have been displaced and one firefighter sustained a non-life-threatening injury during the blaze, officials said.

Officials estimate the fire caused about $45,000 worth of damage. According to investigators, the fire was accidental and was caused by an anomaly in the electrical wiring to the furnace.

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ALBANY, GA (WALB) - Albany firefighters battle a burning trailer, when they find the remnants of a meth lab inside. The chemicals from that meth lab in a fire could have been dangerous in that East Albany mobile home park.

Now fire investigators and drug agents want information to find who was cooking meth in that vacant mobile home.

There were families and kids in mobile homes just yards from that burning vacant home. None of the neighbors would talk with us on camera, but they were concerned; not knowing the threat just next door.

Neighbors spotted heavy smoke coming from inside the vacant mobile home just before one this morning. The wiring from the power pole started arcing, with sparks falling on the mobile home beneath.

Albany Fire Department Investigator Sam Harris said "Meth labs get pretty volatile. So if you don't know what you are doing and it gets away from you, then you have a bad accident. Upon checking the inside of the structure, they found the remnants of an old meth lab, that was inactive."

Drug agents removed the meth lab. A one-bottle cook method, including camp stove fuel. Albany Dougherty Drug Unit Sergeant Vic Camp said "Looks like a hydrogen generator, where they take salt or rock salt with muratic acid or sulfuric acid and make a generator."

Those chemicals in a fire could be dangerous. Drug agents praise firefighters for recognizing the threat and their quick response.

Camp said "If it would have got away from them and exploded, you are right, it could have caught this trailer on fire. And then maybe the trees and the brush and then caught the others trailers on fire."

Now investigators are asking for information to find out who was cooking meth inside the vacant mobile home.

Harris said "So that we can try to get these people away from the neighborhoods where children are located."

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Brittany Price said she was barely dressed, her feet were freezing and she was choking on smoke when she frantically called 911 for help yesterday morning.

Worse, her children, ages 3 and 1, and a friend were still inside the trailer home south of Marion as smoke and flames poured out.

My house is on fire. I cant breathe, Price screamed into the phone. My house is up in flames. My kids are inside. I can hear them screaming.

The dispatcher, apparently misunderstanding the call from the Fountain Place Mobile Home Park, 3068 Marion-Waldo Rd., relayed the call to the Pleasant Township Fire Department as a woman having trouble breathing.

Two minutes later, Price, 23, said, You dont understand, my house is literally up in flames."

Your house is on fire? asked the dispatcher, who changed the assignment to a working fire with a trapped child.

Officials removed the wrapped body of 3-year-old Brayden Blevins about three hours later.

Rescuers took Price to Ohio State Universitys Wexner Medical Center, where she was treated for smoke inhalation and released. Brian Price, 1, was treated at Nationwide Childrens Hospital, which would not release his condition. Cheyenne Smith, 19, was in fair condition at Wexner Medical Center with serious cuts to her hands. She is to have surgery today, said Pleasant Township Fire Chief Clint Canterbury.

The victim was found in a bedroom, where it appears the fire started, Canterbury said. There were no space heaters, and the wiring was intact, investigators reported.

The home was being rented and had no working smoke detectors, officials said.

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OAKLAND, Calif. Home automation startup Skybell has developed an always-on device that streams video using only an 240 milliamp battery.

By wiring its smart doorbell to the transformer and door chime in an existing doorbell, Skybell can run its motion sensor, two-way audio, and camera with wide-angle lens on 10 volts of power. Skybells on-board battery trickles power from the existing home infrastructure so users will never have to charge the device.

Skybell was developed in the summer of 2013 as a way to remotely see who is at your front door. Pressing the doorbell button activates a camera, which sends video to a smartphone app and allows for communication between users and visitors. Its first generation device raised over $592,000 on Indiegogo and a recently shipped second-gen device now includes a lower-power Wi-Fi chip and on-demand video that allows the doorbell to act more like a surveillance system.

The Skybell doorbell's processor, sensors, and low-power Wi-Fi chip allow for streaming video. Source: Skybell

Engineers have also developed an adapter for digital doorbells, which hold power longer enabling it to play a digitized song. A small circuit board screwed into the digital doorbell adapter converts Skybells power management mode to shorten the power needed to play a chime.

Additional video recording features that use a small amount of on-board memory will be available in the next few weeks. Co-Founder Andrew Thomas hopes Skybell will morph into a really intelligent sensor at your front door that can tell your whole smart home hub what to do from turning on lights when someone approaches the door, to voice and facial recognition and response.

I see a day when Skybell can recognize speech, Thomas told EE Times. We want Skybell to be as useful by itself as it is as a platform

Still, if your home doesnt have a doorbell, Skybell will not be the device for you. Thomas isnt worried about the lost market share; rather, he sees a bright future for his doorbells place in the growing world of home automation and for the market as a whole.

Thomas believes uptake for home automation will start slow. Numerous reasons to buy an item such as a smart thermostat will improve the likelihood of creating a smart home, he said.

Im waiting to see how relationships with platforms and companies do with retailers, he said citing Home Depots Wink hub and Lowes Iris. I want to see if people are going to want to use platforms from people who sold them products or platforms based on handset they have.

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