Forbes Forum

Correction on the cause of the fire: The heating and plumbing guys were in the building today to check the furnaces out. One of the boilers had a mal-functioning valve, that caused gas to be discharged into the room constantly. Once in a while, it would ignite. This has been occurring for a while, apparently. So the real cause was a faulty valve--but of course storing "fuel" in the room did not help either. But the mats themselves did not cause the fire.