Product
Prepared Hero Emergency Fire Blanket
Category
Kitchen Appliance
Report number
20230813-ADC62-2147345828
Ownership age
About 8 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)
Failure type
Fire / ignition
Incident narrative
SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20230813-ADC62-2147345828. Severity: Injury, Emergency Department Treatment Received. Product: Prepared Hero Emergency Fire Blanket (The product is the fire blanket made by Prepared Hero. They have two versions of the blanket, a standard version, which is the one I got as a gift, and the �Hero FIre Blanket�. The difference between the two is the standard one only has 1 coating of silicone, which is done to prevent loose fiberglass from coming off the blanket. The Hero Fire Blanket has 2 coatings of silicone, to �Further Prevent Loose FIberglass� in the words of the company on their website. The purpose of the fire blankets is to offer an alternative to fire extinguishers. You throw the blanket onto a fire and it puts the fire out. They come in a red bag with a black pull tab hanging out and they recommend keeping it in the kitchen for quick access.). Incident: My mom got me a fire blanket from Prepared Hero. The blanket is a woven fiberglass matt. It was in the back of my work truck, I never opened it or anything like that and it was shedding fibers of glass that embedded themselves deep into my hands. This started happening right after Christmas, and it took me 3 months to figure out where it was coming from because the glass fibers are basically invisible and I never suspected the fire blanket to be the culprit. The company has no warning label of any kind on the product, and they make it seem like its perfectly safe to have it out of its bag. There�s a picture of a person who uses theirs as a floor mat under the grill to protect the deck from embers. This is an insane thing to do. The glass fibers drove me to near insanity as I had no idea where they were coming from and long fibers of several inches buried themselves in my hands by the thousands, or so it feels. And they don�t come out of the skin. I�ve been to several doctors because of this. My hand got infected with MRSA. It�s now august 13, so its almost been 8 mont
Official report number: 20230813-ADC62-2147345828. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.