Please share this with everybody you know:
Received from a friend who is in the  property insurance business.
It is well worth reading. This is one of  those emails that if you didn't send it, rest assured someone on your list  will suffer for not reading
it. The original message was written by a  lady whose brother and his wife learned a hard lesson this past  week.

Their house burned down.. ..nothing left but ashes. They have good insurance so the house will be replaced and most of the contents.
That is the good news. However, they were sick when they found out the cause of the fire. The insurance investigator sifted through the ashes  for
several hours. He had the cause of the fire traced to the master  bathroom. He asked her sister-in-law what she had plugged in the bathroom. She
listed the normal things....curling iron, blow dryer. He kept saying to her, "No, this would be something that would disintegrate at  high
temperatures".
Then her sister-in-law remembered she had a Glade Plug-In, in the bathroom.

The investigator had one of those "Aha"  moments. He said that was the cause of the fire. He said he has seen  more house fires started
with the plug-in type room fresheners than  anything else. He said the plastic they are made from is THIN plastic. He  also said that in every case
there was nothing left to prove that it  even existed.

When the investigator looked in the wall plug, the two prongs left from the plug-in were still in there. Her sister-in-law had one of the
plug-ins that had a small night light built in it. She said she had noticed that the light would dim and then finally go out.  She would walk in to the
bathroom a few hours later, and the light  would be back on again. The investigator said that the unit was getting  too hot, and would dim
and go out rather than just blow the light bulb.  Once it cooled down it would come back on.

That is a warning sign  . The investigator said he personally wouldn't have any type of plug in  fragrance device anywhere in his house. He has
seen too many places that  have been burned down due to them.

Your story is showing up in several "urban legends" sites.  Snopes and Urband Legends both question the story and SC Johnson (the manufacturer of Glad Plug Ins) refutes the story.

You can read more at Snopes.

Whether or not that's true, I'm glad I don't have any plug-in air fresheners in my house.

I always believe that there is truth in every story. Maybe several factors came together which lead to the fires.....Anyway, if I would be the manufacturer of course I would deny that.
After I heard about the gel candles which CAN explode, I never used them again.
Rather safe than sorry is my philosophy  :-/

I'm more worried of how air fresheners contribute to chemical load of home. After all, in spite what the manufacturer tries to tell us, they are NOT bottled green fields and rose gardens but synthetic chemicals.

I'd rather get rid of the cause of "bad air" than try to cover it up with the air freshners.  Even during the winter here in MN, I like to leave a window cracked open in at least one room so that there is fresh air in the house.

Yikes!!!

::Running into kitchen to pull glad plug-in night light from the wall, quickly!::

I have been reading about how air fresheners are terrible for you, and decided to stop using them, forgetting completely about the one I have plugged in!  Out it goes!