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Roomba lithium battery fire injures man in Miami Gardens house fire

S4 · 01/30
2024 · iRobot · Miami Gardens, FL, USA

Record

CompanyiRobot
Categoryconsumer robotics
Typefire
Date01/30
2024
Time of daynot documented
LocationMiami Gardens, FL, USA
SeverityS4 (serious injury, total loss, or grounding)
Scale1 unit / 1 injury
Confidencemedium
VerificationYes - adversarially checked against the cited source
SourceLocal10 (WPLG Miami)

What happened

A Roomba robot vacuum's lithium-ion battery reportedly went into thermal runaway and caught fire in a Miami Gardens home, spreading flames through the living room; a 20-year-old man sleeping in the room was airlifted to hospital. CPSC opened an investigation.

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