Four years ago from tomorrow, I had a garage fire.
X marks the spot where the strip was located.
Mind, this is the result even when I had a fire x and water on it within 70 seconds of alarm.
Fire chief and inspector both told me these power stri[p's are A COMMON CAUSE OF FIRES.
The fuses/relay/gfi components are located between where the cord comes into the unit before any outlet.
This component heats up and though the power strip itself may be fire resistant, whatever it sits on is probably not.
The component gets so hot that it combusts what is beneath it, in my case pegboard and the starts a fire to further degrade power strip.
Told me IF I choose to continue to use power strrips, be sure they are metal and are sitting on top of noncombustible material