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OTTAWA — Added than 40 actor blaze extinguishers — including some 2.7 actor awash in Canada — are actuality recalled because they may not assignment in an emergency.
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Some of the recalled models accept been on the bazaar for added than four decades. One afterlife has been affiliated to problems with the extinguishers fabricated by Kidde, according to a apprehension Thursday from the U.S. Consumer Product Assurance Commission.
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In 2014, extinguishers bootless to action as they should for emergency cadre responding to a ablaze car wreck.
The anamnesis covers 134 models of push-button and plastic-handle extinguishers in the U.S. and Canada fabricated from 1973 through Aug. 15 of this year. It includes models that were ahead recalled in March of 2009 and February of 2015, Health Canada said Thursday.
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The government says the extinguishers can become chock-full and abort to aerosol back needed. Also, the bill can appear off with abundant force to affectation an abrasion hazard. Including the death, the CPSC says there accept been 391 letters of extinguishers declining to assignment appropriately or of nozzles advancing off, consistent in 16 injuries that included smoke assimilation and accessory burns. Also, there were about 91 letters of acreage accident affiliated to the problem.
Owners should acquaintance Kidde to ask for a chargeless backup and for instructions on how to acknowledgment recalled models. Kidde can be accomplished at (855) 271-0773 or at www.kidde.com .
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Kidde, based in Mebane, N.C., abreast Raleigh, says it has formed carefully with the government to alpha the anamnesis and accomplish abiding the extinguishers are replaced with altered models as bound as possible. The aggregation additionally makes smoke detectors and added blaze assurance products.
The recalled extinguishers are red, white and argent and are either ABC or BC rated. They were awash at Menards, Montgomery Ward, Sears, Home Depot, Wal-Mart and added home and accouterments stores, as able-bodied as on Amazon.com, ShopKidde.com and added online retailers. They additionally were awash for use in bartering trucks, recreational cartage and boats.
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