Aeiusny UPS-500AD

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20201112-8B6E6-2147368165. Severity: Injury, No First Aid or Medical Attention Received. Product: Aeiusny UPS-500AD (Aeiusny Generator Model UPS-500AD The user manual describes the product as "Aeiusny Uniterrupted Power Supply". The Amazon description provided earlier in this form included the claim that it was a solar generator. I was using it as a standby UPS for just a modem and router.). Incident: I purchased a Aeiusny 288 wh 500 W Emergency power station and UPS powered with lithium ion batteries from Amazon in August of 2019. Aeiusny is a Japanese company with an office in Massachusetts. I used the device in Pennsylvania. It caught fire in my house on the evening of November 9, 2020. I was in on a different floor when the Aieusny UPS/Generator caught on fire so I did not see it initiate. I was fortunate to have just replaced my smoke detectors in my house so they were quick to sound off when the fire ignited and I was fortunate that I had a dry chemical ABC fire extinguisher in the room where I was using the device as a UPS with a light load (modem and router). I was able to temporarily douse the flames on the burning generator with the dry chemical extinguisher and due to ignorance of the reaction that causes lithium batteries to burn, I unplugged the modem and router from the generator and the generator from the AC source and grabbed it by the handle with my bare hand and proceeded to run it out of my house. It flared up again as I approached my patio door and scorched part of the door frame, the glass and burnt some holes in the screen door but I kept running a few more feet and dropped it on my concrete patio and fortunately suffered no burns but I did breath in burning lithium battery and plastic case fumes during this process. I read later that my initial belief that I had permanently doused the lithium battery fire with an ABC extinguisher was wrong and running with it out of my house bare-handed was dangerous