Ceramic Heat Emitter Safety
Hi, this evening I pulled my trash can out to throw the contents away, and the can is located right next to my snake's enclosure table. I accidentally pulled the entire lamp setup off of his tank and caused it to crash on the floor. This lamp setup includes a heating dual-bulb heat lamp which doesnt turn on after the crash (even though it turned on last time after it fell previously but just one bulb, now its not working at all) and the ceramic heat emitter I have for supporting the air temp. It fell on the ground, with the lamp, and I want to give a few important details that might help decide if this is worth replacing it or not; as when it fell on the floor, adrenaline kicked in and I grabbed it immediately as I have carpet flooring and dont want to start a fire. I accidentally grabbed it by the bulb, searing my thumb on the bulb and making a sizzling noise.
My main question is, what should I look for that points towards bulb damage? I let it cool down entirely before inspecting it, and didnt see any damage other than a very minor dent in the metal dome, separate from the bulb. When I turned it on and let it go from cold > hot, it got this weird burning smell but it was so slight I couldn't really "track" the smell, it kinda just occasionally hit me every here and there, but once I got close to the bulb to sniff it, I couldn't smell it really.
It's late, and I worry that I could wake up to a fire, but don't want to unplug unneccesarily if I can help it, as it's really cold where I live and don't want my snake to be cold overnight for nothing.