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Product

Frigidaire LFSS2612TE

Category

Kitchen Appliance

Report number

20220822-F9342-3873751

Ownership age

About 25 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20220822-F9342-3873751. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Frigidaire LFSS2612TE (side by side refrigerator freezer). Incident: The consumer stated that the product caused a fire in her home on 8/28/2020. Her home and everything in it was completely destroyed. The consumer was in bed. The fire alarm went off. The consumer jumped out of bed and looked across the room. There was an explosion. There were flames going up the wall at the back of the refrigerator. The consumer stated the product was delivered on the same day. The delivery persons dropped the product on its side. The consumer stated that in her research she found out that there is a highly flammable refrigerant that is used in the the product. She thinks that the refrigerant began to leak after the product was dropped and that may have caused the fire. Report Update: The delivery persons dropped the side by side refrigerator-freezer on its side and laid it flat before leaving and putting it in place next to the kitchen wall where it later exploded and caught the kitchen wall and itself on fire and burned my entire house and contents completely

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