Dell laptop destroys fisherman's truck
This entry was posted on 8/15/2006 5:29 PM and is filed under Technology '06 - 01.
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By AmericasNewsToday.Org staff
Dell has been bedeviled by reports of burning laptops in recent months. In June, a Dell notebook burst into flames during a conference in a hotel in Osaka, Japan. In July, firefighters in Vernon Hills, Illinois, were called to the offices of Tetra Pak, a food processing and packaging company, to extinguish a notebook fire hot enough to burn the desk beneath it.
That same month, a Dell notebook in the cab of a pickup parked alongside Lake Mead in Nevada caught fire, igniting ammunition in the glove box and then the gas tanks. The truck exploded. No one was injured. "A few minutes later, and we'd have been coming up out of the canyon when the notebook blew up," said Thomas Forqueran, owner of the computer and the truck. "Somebody is going to wind up getting killed."
After the two men smelled the smoke they remembered the boxes of ammunition inside the trucks' glove box. Both men took cover before a pillar of flames shot 10 to 15 feet into the air
. Additional reporting by '
On The Money.'
