RECALL Alert: Fiesta Blue Ember Gas Grill
Tuesday July 21, 2009
U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Health Canada, and Fiesta Gas Grills have announce a voluntary recall of 113,000 Fiesta Blue Ember Gas Grills models FG50045, FG50057, and FG50069 sold in the United States and Canada between November 2006 and May 2008. The problem relates to a potential fire hazard caused by the gas hose coming too close to the firebox. If you own this grill (see the complete posting at CSPC for a complete list of model numbers) you are asked to discontinued usage until you have repaired the grill. Repairing the grill includes inspecting the gas hose and regulator to determine if there is damage and a replacement of the grills grease tray. DO NOT use this grill until these repairs have been made.
Please take this recall serious. 161 fires have been reported related to this defect and 9 injuries, 2 serious. The longer you wait to resolve this problem the more likely you are to have a serious accident.
The Blue Ember Gas Grill was subject to a previous recall in October of 2008. Blue Ember Gas grills are manufactured by Unisplendor Corp., and Keesung Corp., of China and imported by Fiesta Gas Grills of Dickson, Tennessee.
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Comments
Yes, take this recall serious. We only got to use our 4-5 times before ours caught fire. The hose that connects to the propane tank caught fire and thankfully we had a fire extinguisher handy to put it out-water doesn’t do the trick with this kind of fire. Thankfully no one was hurt and our house didn’t catch fire (even though it was next to the house).
Please take it seriously!!
Yes.. ours caught fire as well and sent flames out the back against my vinyl siding and warped the siding. if it wasn’t for my aware guest who noticed the flames we would have had a serious fire in our townhouse complex.
Glad to see a recall although I repaired mine already.
Our grill caught fire 2 months ago, I’m in the Fire Department here in our town, no big deal, Got the hose and sprayed it down to reach in and turn the gas off.
Hose completely burned thru.
Went to buy replacement parts and saw this Recall.
I hope they make good on it.
Timmy from Connecticut