| I don't know how many times someone that I | | | | you were actually in the bathtub, there's a good |
| was working for, asked me, this simple question. | | | | chance that you weren't going to be happy. |
| What does a GFI do? Why do we need them? | | | | It wasn't long before someone invented a ground |
| And how come they cost so much money? I | | | | fault interrupter. Commonly known as a GFI. |
| can't answer everyone's questions, but I can tell | | | | These sensitive electrical outlets would shorten |
| you what a GFI does and how important they | | | | the amount of time that it would take to turn the |
| are in your home. | | | | electrical breaker off, during an emergency. Every |
| A GFI is actually an extremely sensitive electrical | | | | GFI has its own sensitive electrical breaker and it, |
| plug that is designed to stop the flow of electricity | | | | so that you could reset it, at the electrical outlet. |
| at the smallest sign that something could be | | | | There's really not a lot you can say about a GFI, |
| wrong in your kitchen and bathroom. It wasn't | | | | but there is one thing that constantly keeps |
| that long ago, that people were getting | | | | showing up in my mind, over and over again. |
| electrocuted, from hair dryers falling into their | | | | These sensitive electrical outlets have probably |
| bathtubs. | | | | saved thousands of lives and will probably save |
| Someone would have an electric hairdryer sitting | | | | many more in the future. |
| on the edge of the bathtub or maybe the edge | | | | I would like to thank whoever invented the GFI |
| of a countertop near the bathtub and the | | | | for their wonderful contribution to man's safety. |
| moment that the hairdryer fell into the water and | | | | |