SaferProducts incident

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20230126-05AAC-2147351147. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Product: Warmies (warmies.com) Red Panda Warmies (microwaveable stuffed animal warm, weighted, and lavender scented). Incident: I'm writing to report an issue with a Warmies stuffed animal product (Red Panda SKU : CP-RPA-1). My son received this product for Christmas and was using it one evening - putting it into the microwave and warming it up. I believe he warmed it for 120 seconds which IS above the time it should be warmed in the microwave although he had put it in for that same time on previous evenings without any issue. After it was warmed, I noticed the smell, it smelled very odd and was not emitting the pleasant lavender scent that it is supposed to emit but rather a rancid and unpleasant odor. My son was holding it and ready to head up to bed but because of the smell I took a moment to inspect the toy. There was a very faint trail of smoke coming through a small burn hole in the stuff animal and I realized that it was on fire - it was slowly smoldering inside the toy. I immediately put it into the sink and hosed it down with tons of water where there was tons of popping, sizzling, etc. I'm grateful this was the extent of it and I am very concerned at the potential hazard to other children and families. It's marketed as a warm, weighted, comforting sleepy toy. I'm not sure the warnings on the label (that is very quickly removed by kids) is enough.