The ways heat lamp-tragedies arise are from (1) being knocked down into dry hay or straw, (2) from straw or hay falling on the heat lamp's hot housing, igniting and then falling to the floor to catch fire in dry bedding, (3) heat lamp bulbs exploding when wet sheep touch the bulb's hot surface (or drops of moisture when the sheep shake off), white-hot filament falling into dry hay or bedding.
The main ingredient to make a safer heat lamp housing is a 5-gallon plastic bucket, often available for the asking where baked goods are sold, or from...
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