Smart meters causing fires across America; facts swept under the rug by dishonest media
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, September 08, 2016
As experts and Americans familiar with smart meters know, they represent a huge privacy violation. They are also inherently unsafe, yet you won’t hear much about that in the mainstream media.
Smart meters began to spread to homes and businesses some years ago, with power companies claiming that they were much more efficient, despite the fact that they monitor electric usage and send it via wireless transmission multiple times an hour to power companies. More on that in a moment.
They are also dangerous, as one Kansas City, Mo., resident learned recently. Waverly Galbreath’s home was in danger of burning down, thanks to a malfunctioning smart meter that caught fire and scarred the side of Galbreath’s house in July. He wasn’t at home when the fire started.
“I got a call from my neighbor and he said my house was on fire,” Galbreath told KSBH-TV. “But when I arrived, I found out the meter had exploded.”
A spokeswoman for Kansas City Power and Light (KCP&L) said that the company investigated the incident, but added the obligatory “this doesn’t happen very often” excuse. The utility’s vice president, Chuck Caisley, added that out of some 700,000 meters KCP&L has installed, just “a handful of meter malfunctions” have occurred. KSBH-TV reported further that there are multiple smart meter manufacturers and models.
But the models that KCP&L uses have been plagued with problems around the country, and Galbreath is far from being the only victim. While problems in the Kansas City area may be few and far between, hundreds of thousands of smart meters across North America have been recalled during the last several years. Also, there have been hundreds of fires – in California, Texas, Florida, Illinois and Nevada, as well as throughout Canada.
Curtis Bennett, a Canadian electrician professor, called it “a very dangerous issue,” and said that it ought to be considered a “real unprecedented emergency” wherever you live. Bennett has been engaged in an ongoing legal battle in his country over the use of smart meters.
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