The wife and I were sitting in our living room this morning when this strip burst into flames! I unplugged this from the wall outlet within a few seconds. The carpet had already started to burn. This strip was running our fish tank water filter, air pump and light. The light wasn't on. Any other day I would have been out and about and my wife and son would have been in bed. We were up because my other son was bringing in our grand daughter for us to babysit today. God was with us today! This strip is about 10 yrs old to guess. I am going to replace any other strip ASAP that we have. Please look at yours and replace if you think they are getting old.