Image Credit: Twitter / Kamloops Fire Rescue

By James Peters

I Love Lamp

Unique lamp starts small fire in Kamloops home — and electricity was not involved

Feb 3, 2021 | 4:22 PM

KAMLOOPS — Kamloops Fire Rescue (KFR) has a warning for the public after a near-catastrophe started by a unique lamp.

Earlier in the day Wednesday (Feb. 3), a KFR investigator went into a home where a fire nearly started.

The lamp, with a base made of clear spheres, had been placed near a window. Sunlight pouring through the window refracted through one of the spheres onto a piece of paper sitting beside the lamp and causing the paper to ignite.

Image Credit: Twitter / Kamloops Fire Rescue

The bizarre circumstance did not lead to a fire, but KFR says it very well could have.

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KFR advises owners of similar lamps to consider carefully where they are placed in the home.