The fire was caused by lap top in the bed.

A well known family in Mequon  lost their 25 year old son (Arun Gopal Ratnam) in a fire at home  June 4th.
This is what happened.
He graduated with MBA  from University of Wisconsin-Madison
two weeks earlier and  came home.
Had a lunch with his dad at home and decided to  go back to clean up his room at school.
Father told him to  wait and see his mother before he goes back for a few days.
He decided to take a nap while waiting for his mom to come  home from work.
Neighbors called 911 when they saw black  smoke coming out of the house.
Their 25 year old son Arun  died
in the three year old house.
It took several days  of investigation
to find out the cause of the fire.
It  was determined that the fire was caused by lap top in the bed.  When the lap top is on the bed  cooling fan does not get air to cool the computer and that is  what caused the fire. Uneven surface of the bedsheets has blocked  the air intake vent below the CPU fan.
When the laptop is  placed on a flat surface i.e. on desk/table, there is a gap  between the desk surface and the base of the casing to allow air  to flow/suck in through the air intake vent by the CPU fan to  cool the CPU.

He did not even wake up to get  out of the bed he died of carbon monoxide (CO).
The reason  I'm writing this to all of you is that I have seen all of us  using our lap top in bed.
Let us all decide and make it a  practice not to do that.
Risk is real.

Let us make it a  rule not  to use lap top in bed or put computer on bed with blankets and  pillows around.