Fire / ignition
Electric Ranges or Ovens (Excl Counter-top Ovens) (278)
57 months
SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20210702-F9D1B-2147363167. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Whirlpool Model: WFC130M0AB0, (Whirlpool electric range, Model: WFC130M0AB0). Incident: On 06/18/21 (around 8:00 a.m.) daughter awoke to house filled with smoke. Daughter moved 2 children and pets to outside house. Daughter called 911 reporting the fire. Daughter went to back door of house (adjacent to electrical panel) and turned off electrical breakers. Daughter contact me (her father), I went to the house. The house was full of smoke. I confirmed electrical disconnect at main breaker and holding my breath, I went into house to evaluate fire level. Fire level was reduced to glowing paper on which I pour water to extinguish glowing embers. As other sources of fire were unknown, house was not ventilated. County sheriff arrived who opened front do allow smoke to clear. Fire department arrived thereafter and went into house. Source of fire was the kitchen electrical range and paper adjacent to stove. Initial assessment (as an engineer) was the fire started in the control panel (possibly from electrical short) on the back of stove.There were no injuries from the fire.
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Fire / ignition
Electric Ranges or Ovens (Excl Counter-top Ovens) (278)
57 months
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