Fire from strung-together adapters for Christmas lights does $100,000 damage at Irvine home

Dec. 16, 2015 7:43 AM PT

A string of adapters used to power Christmas lights sparked a blaze at an Irvine home Tuesday night, according to fire officials.
The fire broke out about 7:25 p.m. in the garage of a two-story home on Fillmore near Burke, the Orange County Fire Authority said.
Three multi-plug power adapters were daisy-chained together in the garage, and one of them failed, sparking the blaze, according to the fire authority.
Officials warned that power adapters should never be strung together and should only be plugged directly into an outlet.
Flames also spread to an upstairs bedroom in the house before about 30 firefighters got the blaze under control by 8:20 p.m., according to the fire authority.
The fire caused more than $100,000 in damage and displaced four adult residents, fire officials said.
No one was hurt.

Jeremiah Dobruck

Jeremiah Dobruck was a public safety reporter for the Daily Pilot. He first came to the Pilot as an editorial intern in 2009. After a handful of other media-related jobs, he was hired full-time at the Pilot as a copy editor in 2012. He holds a bachelor’s in journalism from Cal State Fullerton. He left the Daily Pilot in 2016.