Americans are being urged not to buy or use liquid-burning portable fire pits sold for tabletops and other uses after two people died and dozens were injured.
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday that tabletop fire pits, fire pots, small fireplaces or portable fires for indoor use “are extremely dangerous and as of 2019 Associated with two deaths and at least 60 injuries”. Alert. “Consumers should immediately stop using and discarding these products. Sellers should stop selling these products,” the agency said.
The caveat is as follows An elderly couple died in Juneto Herm and Thelma Stolzenberg, Dover, New Hampshire. The two were engulfed in flames from a tabletop fire pit with their family sitting nearby, their daughter Dee McKenney told CBS News in Boston. “Suddenly, these flames erupted and like a blow torch, I can only describe it as it completely engulfed the bodies of both my parents,” McEneaney said. told WBZ-TV in July.
Married for 71 years, McEnany’s 93-year-old parents died of third-degree burns a week and three days after the crash.
One in Hanover, Massachusetts, is also speaking out about potential risks. Caitlin Little was gifted a tabletop fire pit that summer, and shortly after setting it up, it burst into flames, setting her on fire.
Little jumped into a pond in her backyard to put out the fire, and was then hospitalized, unable to move due to second- and third-degree burns all over her body. “I was there for a total of four days treated by the burn unit. Daily dressing changes and soaking and I didn’t get out of bed for four days. I couldn’t walk,” Little said. . “It was just, it was horrible,” he told WBZ earlier this month.
Given the popularity of Fire Pits during the holiday shopping season, I chose not to share what happened to it.
“When I look for Yankee exchange gifts under $30, this is pretty much the No. 1 gift that comes up right now,” Little said. “Many different companies are making them.”
The CPSC recently issued a warning against and recall of FLIKRFIRE tablet-top fireplaces. Coulson Branded Fire Pit The series of terrifying incidents left 19 people with burns, some requiring surgery and others permanently disfigured.
Fire pits that require pouring isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol or other liquid fuel into an open container or bowl and then igniting the pooled liquid in the same place where it was poured violate voluntary safety requirements. are
Isopropyl alcohol, ethanol/bioethanol, and similar liquid fuels burn with flame temperatures greater than 1,600°F and can cause third-degree burns in less than one second. According to the agency, burning a pool of alcohol or other liquid fuel in an open fire pit container creates an uncontrolled fire in the pool, which can suddenly create large, hot flames that can spread out of the fire pit’s products. is
Flame jetting, another hazard, can occur when refilling alcohol or other liquid-burning fire extinguishers when a flame is present. A small flame in a fire pit can be difficult to see and can ignite alcohol or other liquid fuel when it is poured, causing an explosion that pushes flames and burning liquid onto users or bystanders.