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| 6:00AM 10/28/2010
Dollar Tree is recalling nearly 700,000 Halloween-themed battery-powered lanterns over concerns they could start fires, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
The plastic lanterns were molded to look like either a pumpkin, ghost or skull. The CPSC said the bulbs can overheat and Dollar...
| 11:38AM 10/19/2010
Flashlights for kids that project images of Spiderman or other characters sold at Dollar Tree stores are being recalled because they can catch fire, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
It's part of a not-so-curious pattern of poorly made, imported junk marketed to kids that can have...
| 4:40PM 9/08/2010
About 1.4 million cheap FIXIT brand spotlights sold at pharmacy chains, hardware stores and supermarkets nationwide are being recalled after more than a dozen reports of burns to people and property caused by acid leaking from the battery, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
The...
| 8:00PM 10/01/2009
When you put a battery in a flashlight the flashlight shouldn't start burning. One my son brought home from a birthday party did.
It came from Target -- three for $1 in a package marketing them for Halloween. I dropped in a new Energizer battery, screwed on the top and the flashlight got warm...