Couple found dead in sweltering South Carolina home as heater reached a blazing 1,000 degrees

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[–]hfxB0oyA 4 insightful - 3 fun4 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

The moral of this story is that there are some things you should leave to professionals.

[–]Musky[S] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah I've heard a few death by furnace stories now, although this was the first time I've heard of one getting that hot. Usually it's CO poisoning at fault.

[–]Zapped 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I just had to replace a gas furnace due to the heat exchanger leaking. I found out because the flame sensor kept tripping. If I had bypassed this sensor by shunting the wires, it would have allowed carbon-monoxide to get into the house. A new heat exchanger (metal tubes) for the old unit was $1600 and a complete new unit was $2600. My brother-in-law got it for me at cost.

[–]GuyWhite 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Did they fiddle with it, or was it nigger rigged? Sounds like a TND to me.

[–]Musky[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Family came over and fiddled with it.

[–]GuyWhite 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

From the pictures in the story, it looks like a nigra and a coal burner died. So, whether the heater was “ fiddled with” or “nigger rigged” depends on whose family did the deed.

My money is on the nigras as this is a TND.

[–]Zapped 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Some wiring was loose or damaged and their family tried to fix it. Maybe thermostat or limit switch wires, resulting in the gas heater not shutting off and getting the temperature inside the house to 120F degrees.

[–]Musky[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's what I had thought too, the family of the deceased fiddled with it and they got it to turn on, but it wouldn't turn off.

[–]RR_2023 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Doubt

[–]Jiminy 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

No way it was 1000 degrees. Fake news.

[–]IMissPorn 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Well they said the heater was 1000 degrees, not the inside of the home. It's really not clear what this means. Natural gas burns at nearly 2000°C though, so it's not surprising if some part of the heater were half that hot. Gonna chalk this up to useless journalists repeating nonsense without trying to figure out what it really means.

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I found this to be suspicious also. The article clarified that it wasn't that high inside the house, but only the heater itself.

Firefighters also responded to the scorching house, where they estimated the temperature to be 120 degrees F — after the doors had been left open to the cold air for 20 minutes.

The story still could be fake, or the heater might not be the actual cause of their death. If the inside temperature of a home goes up and continues to get hotter and hotter, who is going to stay inside and be roasted alive? Were the people prevented from leaving the house? I doubt the cause of death was that they were burned alive, unless they were handicapped or otherwise restrained and could not physically move themselves to open the door of the house.

[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Says they were in their 80s, it was probably just slightly hot, and they died of natural causes. Sucks the firefighters exaggerated and/or media didn't use common sense to question it.

[–]at_finn 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Now you know why your dad got mad when you messed with the thermostat.