News tagged with 'Appliances and Electronics'

In cooperation with the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Whirlpool Corp., of Benton Harbor, Mich., is voluntarily recalling about 1.4 million dehumidifiers. The dehumidifiers can overheat, posing a fire hazard. Whirlpool has received 13 reports of the dehumidifiers overheating and causing fires, three

The U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announced today that Honeywell Consumer Products Inc. (HCP), of Southborough, Mass, has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $800,000. The penalty settles allegations that Duracraft Corp. failed to report to the CPSC in a timely manner incidents associated with its

As the weather turns colder throughout much of the country, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) urges consumers to have a professional inspection of all fuel-burning appliances - including furnaces, stoves, fireplaces, clothes dryers, water heaters and space heaters - to detect deadly carbon mono

A faulty electric space heater may have caused a fire in a Chicago apartment building that killed five people. The fire killed a 66-year-old grandmother who was babysitting her grandchildren. It also killed a 7-month-old boy, his uncle, and another 60-year-old resident. A fifth victim of the fire has not yet been ide