My Wheelchair Is On Fire!

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For a few minutes yesterday evening I had a very frightening situation.  I had been watching the TV in my room for a while as my mother was washing dishes in the kitchen.  At first I started smelling a very odd odor like something was burning.  I wasn’t really sure though so I kept on sitting there thinking it would go away.  Suddenly, I saw some smoke rising up from the front of my wheelchair so I hollered at my mother to come check it out.  However, she could smell the burning but didn’t realize that it was coming from my chair, and was checking everything else in my room besides my chair, thinking it was the heater or a power strip.  I was getting somewhat irritated with her because she didn’t realize I was talking about my wheelchair the whole time.  By the time she realized that it was my chair, the smoke had gone away.  About that time, my stepfather Dennis came to see what was going on, and they both started looking at my chair but couldn’t find out where it had been coming from.  I checked all of my wheelchair functions, and nothing had been affected.  The imminent danger seemed to have passed, but for the next couple of hours the room still had the terrible smell of burning wire.  Later that evening when I got out of my chair, Dennis made a more thorough inspection of the electrical system of my chair but didn’t find anything that appeared to have been burned.  Hopefully this isn’t something that comes back to haunt us in the near future.  I will be definitely talking to my wheelchair repair company this week to see if they have any ideas.