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Product

Electrolux EFME627UTT

Category

Kitchen Appliance

Report number

20260522-DBC94-2147318891

Ownership age

About 76 months to failure (from purchase date when reported)

Failure type

Fire / ignition

Incident narrative

SaferProducts.gov consumer incident report 20260522-DBC94-2147318891. Severity: Incident, No Injury. Matched catalog product: Electrolux EFME627UTT. Source model text: EFME627UTT1. Incident: Severe product defect. High-resistance connection at the main wiring harness resulted in an electrical arc, melting the plastic housing and welding the heater relay shut. The dryer experienced a thermal runaway event, continuing to heat aggressively while completely turned off and idle, creating an active fire/smoke hazard that required emergency manual disconnection from the 240V wall outlet to prevent a structure fire.

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Official report number: 20260522-DBC94-2147318891. Search that ID on SaferProducts.gov or match it in the CPSC public database export to verify this record.