Thursday night my son loaded our dishwasher and started the wash cycle. My husband and I were upstairs when a daughter rushed into our bedroom and shouted, "The dishwasher is on fire."
We thought she was mistaking steam for smoke, but decided to check it out. Sure enough, the dishwasher was in fact on fire. We hurried to disconnect power to the unit and found that the control panel had caught fire and had even melted in places. We have no idea why.
This dishwasher was a Kenmore with a stainless steel tub that we purchased in late 2003 from our local Sears store. If you happen to own a Kenmore, you may want to be careful when you run it, in case it catches fire.
Not too long ago, a house in our area burned to the ground. The cause was a faulty dishwasher. I shudder to think what might have happened had we not been home.
Be careful when running electrical appliances because you never know when something might malfunction and put your home, or worse, your family, at risk.
2 comments:
Yowza! That's scary. Glad everything turned out OK.
That is scary! I've heard of not leaving the house with the dryer on, but not about the dishwasher.
How often do we leave the house with these appliances running because we need the chores done.
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