Dangerous lens effect: 18 cases when seemingly harmless objects Caused a Fire (19 photos)

Fire safety rules are drilled into us from childhood: don't play with matches, carefully monitor electrical appliances, and keep open flames away from flammable objects. However, in addition to the obvious things that can lead to a major fire, there are also less obvious ones.





Yes, even the most seemingly innocuous things can cause a fire. The "lens effect" is one of the common causes of wildfires. Glass containers, broken glass, and plastic water bottles left behind by tourists act as effective lenses that, on a bright sunny day, can destroy acres of forest. A makeup mirror on a windowsill or a metal bowl with chips in it could set your house on fire.



The souvenir glass ball acted as a magnifying glass and burned a stripe in the curtain.





The glass globe focuses the rays so intensely that it burned a path around lantern



The London skyscraper was nicknamed the "Walkie Talkie" for its unusual shape. But it's precisely this curvilinear shape that causes the problem: the mirrored cladding, combined with the concave façade, is capable of capturing the sun's rays and reflecting them so strongly that the temperature in the concentrated beam reaches 69.8 degrees Celsius.



The sun's rays, focused in a crystal ball, burned the spine. Books



"I washed the car. The clean caps acted like a lens: the blazing fire scorched the lawn."



The mirror burned part of the wall.



The shiny bowl acted like a mirror and set fire to the items inside. Chips



Back in 2018, for the World Cup, Svyatoy Istochnik released a bottle shaped like a football, but it turned out to be unsafe. It turns out that if you leave a bottle in the sun, it acts like a lens and sets everything around it on fire.



"My sister left her makeup mirror in front of the window next to her laptop. The beam he focused burned a hole in the screen."



A fire broke out in the apartment due to beams reflecting off a large mirror in the bedroom.



A boy accidentally set fire to the lawn while playing with a magnifying glass. glass



"A crystal ball burned a hole in my homework"



A makeup mirror burned a window sill in bathroom



"Mom accidentally left the mirror on the window this morning. When she came back in the evening, she saw this."



"The mirror burned the frame in the rented apartment. I don't know what to do."



"You should keep the crystal ball closed when you're not using it. Otherwise, it will set the room on fire. I learned this the hard way."



"The sun shining through the mirror in my new apartment burned through the carpet."



"My makeup mirror almost burned down my bathroom."