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Fatal Dallas Fire Puts Scrutiny On 'Smart' Meters (Video)

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(N.Morgan) James Humphrey Jr. was found dead on his bedroom floor Monday night after being unable to escape from a fire that raged through his home. The family believes this fire could have been avoidable, if it had not been for the Smart Meter that had been installed into Mr; Humphrey’s house. “I just lost a 75-year-old cousin,” Alfreda Johnson said. She believes this was a death — and a fire — that could have been prevented.

 

“They came out and changed that meter three weeks ago, and the house caught on fire from that meter,” she alleged.

 

 

 

Fire investigators say the blaze that killed Humphrey did start near the home’s electric meter, which is an advanced, digital “smart meter.” Investigators haven’t determined that was the cause, but are considering it as a possibility.

 

 

“Oncor comes out here and they post those meters out there on these old houses. These houses are not equipped to carry those smart meters,” Johnson said.

 

 

Smart meters have been the focus controversy in recent years, due to the health problems people have attributed to the Smart Meters.

 

 

Two national electric providers confirm to News 8 they’ve seen smart meters overheat occasionally when connected to older wiring systems in some homes.

 

As for Monday’s fatal fire in Dallas, Oncor — which delivers electricity to North Texas and has installed more than three million smart meters — said in a statement:

 

“Our thoughts are with the family in this difficult time … There has been no prior instance where such a meter has caused a fire in a dwelling.”

 

However, the advanced boxes have been suspected of sparking fires and overheating in a number of cases elsewhere. The meters have occasionally been replaced en masse: 186,000 of them in Philadelphia; more than 10,000 in Lakeland, Florida; another 70,000 in Oregon; and 105,000 in Saskatchewan, Canada.

 

 

 

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    • BAD-DOG

      Well, as much as we all may want to think it started in the smart meter. Look at the photo above of the smart meter….the low temperature CLEAR plastic housing is not melted or even has signs of smoke staining. It would be reasonable to expect at least some smoke damage on the meter if it started the fire.

      This isn’t rocket science or brain surgery. How did the meter start a fire AND not get damaged in the fire ?? Think about it sheeple, think about it.

      • mfritz0

        Yes, think about it. When these units burn out for whatever reason, they get replaced. The replacement includes the housing which they are contained in. Then the burnt out unit is taken back to the shop disassembled studied and the parts are salvaged and cleaned (with trichloroethylene). So there wouldn’t be any burnt parts ever replaced, no evidence ever left to indicate responsibility.

      • Anonymous

        Quit trying to bring logic into this. The FEEEEER POOOOOOORN© cadets don’t like it. LOLOLOLOLOL!!!!

    • yuckfoo

      You’re not getting it, Bad-Dog …..

      Smart Meters do far more than keep and send a digital tabulation of the electric and gas use. They work by and emit through the air and electrical lines, very high frequency MICROWAVES. If you know anything about how microwaves work, it is not at all outside the realm of real possibility that it is the intense microwave EMFs that causes fires. Consider how microwave ovens heat food and yet the device itself remains ‘uncooked’ or ‘burnt’. Same principle.

    • mfritz0

      I thought this would be happening. Two years ago when they installed them in my apartment, the first one only lasted a month. It completely melted inside all the way up to the connector probes that connected to the input from the power pole. The next meter is still working. So it is my assumption that there is a quality control flaw in their construction that causes this condition. Oh yes a week after they installed the first one there seemed to be the smell of a burning transformer in my apartment, but since I’ve been an electrician for the last 50 years I knew there were no transformers plugged in in my apartment so I assumed it was my imagination. The smell went away after a day or so and the only indication to me was the 15 dollar electrical bill I got the next month when it was averaging $140.00 a month. I called them up and watched them pull out the burnt out core.

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