Fire / ignition
Hoverboards and powered skateboards (5025)
1 months
SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20221227-D9141-2147351839. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Hover-1 H1-RNGE-GRT (Hover-1 Ranger 220 max weight 6.5 in tires 7 mph max speed 6 mile max distance Gray color Lithium-Ion battery 25.2 Voltage). Incident: My daughter received a Hover-1 Ranger Hoverboard for Christmas. We plugged it in to charge it for a few hours and then unplugged it, per the operation manual. My daughter rode it around for a bit and then turned it off, leaving it unplugged. We left the house and after a bout 2 hours, my husband got an alert that our smoke detectors were going off at our house. I called my parents to go check on our house because we were 20 minutes away. They entered our house and could immediately see smoke and smell the electrical burning. They found the hoverboard smoking and my dad pushed it out the door with his feet. Within moments it burst into flames. Thankfully no injuries occurred and our house is ok, just has a terrible electrical burn smell. We are attempting to clean our carpets, walls and coats that were nearby that all took the brunt of the smoke. If my parents had gotten to our house even 2 minutes later, our house would have caught fire. This could have been catastrophic. We could have lost our house and our 3 cats.
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Fire / ignition
Hoverboards and powered skateboards (5025)
1 months
Months until failure
1 months
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