The flow of reports gradually began to pick up, and so the commission decided to launch a full-blown investigation into every occurrence, he said. Wolfson said hoverboards became “quite popular” in fall 2015, and the Safety Commission started receiving fire incident reports about the product around that time. The family said they heard sizzling and crackling before the hoverboard exploded, Enterline reported. Dennis Devoe was killed in a traffic accident on his way to the fire.įire Chief Brian Enterline told the fire was ruled accidental and the source was a rechargeable hoverboard plugged into a first-floor outlet. “We do not know whether the tragic incident in Harrisburg involved a recalled hoverboard or not,” said Wolfson, who noted that the commission has begun an investigation to learn this and other key answers.
Half a million hoverboards recalled due to fire hazard Recalled iMoto Smart Balance Board From Consumer Product Safety Commission Last year, 10 different brands of the toy were recalled in July with one additional brand recalled in December as a result of nearly 100 reports of burns and property damage caused by fires resulting from overheating batteries. The girl’s father and a teenage boy were both treated for smoke inhalation and released shortly thereafter, and two other girls who had been in the house remain in critical condition.Īshanti’s is the first death linked to a fire from a self-balancing scooter, commonly called hoverboards, in the United States, said Scott Wolfson, communications director for the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. Friday, sent six people to the hospital.Īshanti Hughes died in Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest’s burn unit Saturday morning, said a spokesman for Lehigh County Coroner’s Office and Forensic Center.
Her death is believed to be the first in the nation to result from a blaze caused by the battery operated toy, some of which have previously been recalled due to their potential fire hazard. A 3-year-old girl died over the weekend in a fire ignited by a recharging self-balancing scooter in her Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, home.
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