Here’s Your Government-Sponsored Christmas Tree Fire Disaster Video

Your Christmas Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree will revel and comfort your folk this twelvemonth — unless it inflame and pour down them all in a monolithic snake pit . It probably wo n’t materialise , but the Consumer Product Safety Commission wants to show you what it ’s like .

As you bang , Christmas Tree are made out of tree , and trees , like all works , can dry out out . Most plant , however , do n’t have an enormous bowed stringed instrument of cheap Chinese electric wiring draped around them — so the Christmas Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree is a hidden bomb inside your home . Do you hear it ? check . Tick . Tick . The CPSC recommends having a indicate “ tree diagram waterer ” to ensure yours does n’t turn into a house - destruct explosion bush . belike a in effect mind ! That ’ll keep it passably too .

But danger is n’t just for pagan — oh no . For those of you celebrating Hanukkah , your menorah could also blow your abode off the face of the map . Just take in the telecasting — candles can light , were you aware ? With that in mind , do n’t put your menorah directly next to curtains , or a stack of hay , or inside a chamber with consummate oxygen pumped into it . Have a safe and hellfire - free vacation time of year , my friends . [ CPSC ]