Free Republic

Hi, Do window air conditioners draw more current when they get old? I had one in the bathroom. Toward the end of the summer, it was tripping the GFCI quite a bit. It had not done that in past summers. I got tired of resetting the GFCI. The air conditioner is heavy; I got around to taking it down just now. I've had a space heater in the bathroom plugged into the GFCI for a few weeks. It has not been tripping -- I'm thinking the space heater draws less current than the air conditioner even in the best of...

Five children were killed in a house fire in Citra Monday night. Three brothers -- Joseph Jordan, 15, Austin Jordan, 13, and William Jordan Jr., 8 -- and their two sisters -- Shyanne Jordan, 12, and Trinity Jordan, 6 -- were killed in the fire at 1760 N.E. 182nd Place. Their 21-year-old aunt, Kyla Cole, was severely burned.