Electrical Safety: Circuit Breakers and Home Fire Prevention

If too many appliances in the house are turned on or if something is wrong with one of them, there may be too much electricity flowing through the circuit and the wires would get hot. If the wires get too hot, they could start a fire. So, at the point where the wires from the pole come in, there is a fuse box or some circuit breakers. Circuit breakers are something like switches. If there is too much electricity going through, they snap the electric current off automatically. Sometimes if lights go out mysteriously, this may be the answer. Dad will have to check this by resetting the circuit breaker. The lights come on but go right off again. Perhaps there is something wrong with one of the appliances and it is causing a short circuit. Sure enough, the plug of the coffee percolator seems to be damaged and needs