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  • Window Air Conditioners

    11/24/2024 5:02:37 PM PST · by scrabblehack · 62 replies
    Self ^ | 11/24/2024 | Self
    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 killed in Citra house fire Monday night

    11/09/2010 6:47:32 AM PST · by Alice in Wonderland · 6 replies
    Ocala Star Banner ^ | 11/09/10 | Austin L. Miller
    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.