so glad you all found it in time.I still use my Gramma's old cloth cord irons -so I've always unplugged them before leaving the room.The only new lite wgt iron I ever owned was suppose to shut off on its own and in the few minutes it took to use the bathroom it burnt through the top of my ironing board and it took days to get rid of that smell and now I use a trivet to set the irons on instead of on the board.