Item #: SCP-CN-2627
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: The Containment Department is to continuously operate webcrawlers to search for and remove SCP-CN-2627-related content. Special attention is to be paid to personnel viewing and deleting SCP-CN-2627 instances, and fire extinguishers are to be on standby at all times. Personnel selection guidelines can be found in the Addendum.
Description: SCP-CN-2627 is a document titled "Warning! Watch Out for These (number) Hidden Risks of Fire in Everyday Life", widely spread throughout the Internet. The original source of the document is already unidentifiable. SCP-CN-2627 is a numbered list of possible fire hazards one can encounter in everyday life. As the list progresses, the "hazards" become more and more common, and their actual potential to cause real-life fires becomes more and more contrived. The final line of the document is a conclusion, which reads as follows:
As of today, (number) people have lost their lives in a fire due to not noticing these hidden risks in time! Please be careful of fire hazards!
When a subject reads one of the entries of the numbered list that exactly matches their current situation, it will immediately spontaneously combust. If the subject dies of this spontaneous combustion, SCP-CN-2627 will produce a new entry at the bottom of the list, and the number in the title and final line will be incremented. The content of the newly added entry does not have any direct correlation with the entity affected. Of note is that only reading the full version of SCP-CN-2627 will produce the anomalous effect; if a subject reads only a partial or altered copy of the document, the effect will not be produced.
The following addendum contains the current version of SCP-CN-2627. To prevent the occurrence of anomalous effects, part of the content below has been redacted. The containment team may use the addendum as a reference to choose personnel unlikely to be affected by SCP-CN-2627 to carry out internet monitoring work.
Warning! Watch Out for These 32 Hidden Risks of Fire in Everyday Life
Did you know that many of your seemingly inconsequential everyday habits can be fire hazards? Look out for these hidden risks to reduce the possibility of a fire and keep your city safe and civilized!
1. Lighting an open flame in an enclosed room can lead to a fire! There may be children who enjoy playing with fire, and it is this unknowing playfulness that can lead to tragedy! Don't play with fire, kids!
2. Using worn-out wires can lead to a fire! Check your electronics and wires regularly! If they're old and damaged, they may lead to a fire!
3. Improperly disposing of cigarette butts can lead to a fire! There are many cases worldwide of improperly disposed cigarette butts leading to a fire! There are likely a lot of flammable items in your house, so the risk is not to be underestimated!
4. Blocking the fire escape can lead to a fire! It may be highly unlikely that a fire could start in the escape path, but if the fire escape route is blocked, the firefighters may not be able to reach the source of the fire in time, and people trapped in the building may not be able to escape in time!
5. Lighting fireworks and firecrackers can lead to a fire! While they are a staple of celebrations, they can also bring disaster! For the safety of you and your neighbors, please be careful when celebrating!
6. Not unplugging your devices when not in use can lead to a fire! Many people leave their devices plugged in out of convenience, but this is very dangerous! A spark could come out of the plug at any time and threaten your entire household!
7. Using an open flame for cooking can lead to a fire! An open flame is always a risk of fire — not only can it burn your hand, but it might burn down your entire kitchen!
8. Lighting an alcohol burner can lead to a fire! When doing experiments, you'll often use an alcohol burner — but the match you use to light it, the alcohol itself, and capping the flame are all fire hazards! Not to mention someone could knock over the alcohol burner, or use one to light another.
9. Eating self-heating hot pot can lead to a fire! The fact that it has "hot" in the name already tells you that it's a fire hazard, but the automatic heating packs can easily catch fire or explode!
10. Refilling your gas tank can lead to a fire! Petrol and diesel are classic examples of flammable liquids, and there are plenty of examples of fires occurring at gas stations. Imagine going to the bomb factory to buy a liquid bomb and dragging it around the city!
11. Lighting joss sticks can lead to a fire! You may think you're praying to the Buddha or your ancestors for peace, but really what you're doing is threatening the peace. If the fire goes out of control, not even the Buddha can save you!
12. Using a magnifying glass can lead to a fire! You may have used a magnifying glass to cook an ant when you were young; this works because the magnifying glass focuses light at a point, and whatever is at that point ignites!
13. Drinking alcohol can lead to a fire! Alcohol ignites easily; drinking alcohol is like pouring fuel into yourself, and can lead to self-combustion! Not to mention that drinking alcohol will impair your decision-making and make you more likely to do something risky involving fire!
14. Reading The Little Match Girl can lead to a fire! Though it's a classic children's story, it promotes committing arson in broad daylight! Even if it's a cold day, you shouldn't light a match to stay warm!
15. Cupping therapy can lead to a fire! The cups need to be heated with fire, and then placed onto the body. Its medicinal benefits have been disproven — but it definitely can light you on fire!
16. Inhaling oxygen can lead to a fire! Elementary school science teaches us that oxygen is necessary for combustion, and fires burn hotter when given oxygen. Inhaling oxygen is literally inhaling flammable fuel!
17. Producing flammable waste can lead to a fire! The sad truth is that burning refuse has become one of the most common ways of waste disposal! They set up giant furnaces in the middle of a city. Continuing to produce flammable waste is like throwing fuel into this giant furnace.
18. Using solar energy can lead to a fire! Everyone knows that the sun is a giant ball of fire floating in space. You don't want to bring that fire to Earth, do you?
19. Having a fever can lead to a fire! Don't brush it off as a minor illness; a fever can lead to your body temperature increasing, and once it reaches a certain level you'll literally be set ablaze! The same goes for inflammation!
20. Reposting "hot" content can lead to fires! People are usually happy to see that their posts are "the hottest new thing around", but of course there is a hidden danger here: as network traffic increases, your electronic devices will heat up trying to handle it, and eventually light a real fire!
21. Reading romance novels can lead to a fire! There is a genre of novels where the male lead tells the female lead that she is playing with fire! This is clearly an incitement to arson! We must stop the publication of these novels that lack public morals, so as to stop the spread of arson!
22. Arguing with people can lead to a fire! People often say an argument gets "heated", but never consider what that "heat" does to the environment!
23. Having too much of the "fire" element can lead to a fire! The sages of old definitely were on to something — if your birthdate readings have a lot of "fire", watch out! You could be a walking fire hazard!
24. Watching the Olympics can lead to a fire! An important Olympic tradition is the torch relay, but it's unthinkable that parading a massive fire hazard around the world can be met with anything but fear. The Olympics are promoting arson on a global scale, and the hidden damage to the world's psyche is unthinkable!
25. Fire drills can lead to a fire! You may think that fire drills will help you survive a fire, but according to Murphy's Law, the worst thing that you think could happen will definitely happen, and during a fire drill, everyone will be worried about a fire! Even though this seems counter-intuitive, fire drills actually invite fire!
26. Dark humor can lead to a fire! After telling a dark joke, there's always a feeling of "I'm going to hell for this", and as everyone knows, hell is filled with fire and brimstone! You're bringing hell to earth, and lighting the world on fire!
27. Eating chili peppers can lead to a fire! When characters in cartoons eat something really spicy, fire shoots out of their noses — this is truth in television! Imagine if everyone ate chili peppers all the time — the world would be ablaze in no time!
28. Astrological signs associated with fire can lead to a fire! Those born in Aries, Leo and Sagittarius should be careful — your sign is scattering astral energy through you onto the Earth! Once the fire element reaches the earth, it's very likely to cause a fire!
29. Hugging a teddy bear can lead to a fire! Plush toys are all flammable, and stroking a teddy bear creates friction and heat energy, which could lead to your beloved teddy catching fire!
30. Not working diligently can lead to a fire! If you're caught slacking off, your boss might get angry, and you could be "fired"! Soon enough, your whole company might be set ablaze!
31. Tuesdays can lead to a fire! The Japanese word for Tuesday is "kayoubi", which means "day of fire"! Therefore, Tuesday is the most dangerous day of the week, filled with fire hazards!
32. Reading the word "fire" can lead to a fire! Fire is very dangerous, and transmits itself through many different means. What most people don't know is that the word "fire" itself can transmit fire! Be careful when dealing with semiotics!
Above I have listed out 32 things that can lead to a fire. As of today, 32 people have lost their lives in a fire due to not noticing these hidden risks in time! Please be careful of fire hazards!
In addition, the author has discovered that some groups with ill intent are tampering with this quality science article. This is very dangerous! Taking this article out of context is likely to lead to a dramatic increase in fire hazards! The editor has been working overtime to revert all the altered articles! Readers should exercise caution so as to not allow these potential arsonists to mislead them.