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I was in the bedroom adjacent to the bathroom. I had left the light on in the bathroom; it had probably been on an hour or longer. In the bedroom I began to smell an odor like electrical wiring overheating. I started going thru the house to see where the smell was coming from, as soon as I left the bedroom I knew I was heading in the wrong direction. I returned to the bedroom. Was it the DVD player, the clock, the TV that I smelled? No. I entered the bathroom. It was coming form the GE Helical 20W bulb in the light fixture. I flipped the switch off and waited a few minutes before removing the bulb. When I removed the bulb I found that both places where the tube enters the base were blacken and smelled like burnt wiring. This is a new way of having a bulb burn out and pretty scary too! By the way it hasn’t been five years since the bulb was installed. Has anyone else had a similar experience? The Bulb I remove has “MADE IN CHINA” stamped on the base, maybe they used too much lead.