Char Broil 4638117

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20160808-95624-2147415265. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Char Broil 4638117 (propane grill The model number is 4638117 The serial number is 0102840612 The product numbrer is 4638117 the label calls this an "Outdoor Gas Grill" by CharBroil.). Incident: Our Char Broil gas bbq almost caused our house to burn down. I had lit the grill and gone inside to retrieve the food. Apparently holes developed in the metal tube connecting the rubber gas line to the burners. There is evidence of charring under the grill, so flames must have been coming out of the tube. It appears that those flames melted the gas line, then ignited the gas flowing out of the severed gas line. (It must have been flames, not just heat from the bbq, otherwise the gas wouldn't have ignited.) The propane bottle, unrestrained by the gas line fell over. The lit gas line acted like a flame thrower, hurling flames at our house. Fortunately it had rained so the house was wet and we were able to grab a fire extinguisher and put this out. What a disaster.