[h=1]Exploding e-cigarette could have killed my dogs and cats, terrified Atlanta woman says[/h]An Atlanta woman says she is lucky to be alive after an electronic cigarette she was charging in her computer's USB port exploded and burned a hole in her rug.
"If I hadn't had been home, I would have lost my dogs, I would have lost my cats, I would have lost my house," Elizabeth Wilkowski told WSB-TV. "It was like, 'Kaboom!' And I see this flame shooting across my living room."
Wilkowski says she used a cleaning rag to grab the e-cigarette and extinguish the flame.
The store where she bought the device a smoke-free cigarette that delivers a nicotine kick in a cool mist said it no longer carries the eHit brand e-cigarette, which is made in China by Shenzhen Seego Technology.
According to the tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association, there are more than 3.5 million e-cigarettes in use in the United States.
A spokesman for the association told the Daily Mail there have been just two reported fire incidents involving e-cigarettes since 2007.
In February, a 57-year-old Florida man suffered severe injuries when an e-cigarette blew up in his face. Fire officials say the explosion was caused by a faulty battery.
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[h=2]ATLANTA - "It wasn't a boom, it wasn't a pop...it was a Kaboom. It sounded like a bomb. My walls rattled. It shook the house up. I screamed. It was a real freak out moment." These are the words of a Grant Park woman who is claiming that an electronic cigarette she purchased with the intention of getting healthy, exploded, shooting flames across her living room, charring a sofa and a rug.[/h] Elizabeth Wilkowski used the rag in the picture above to protect her hand when she removed the E-cigarette from her computer's USB port where it had been charging.
"If I hadn't had been home, I would have lost my dogs, I would have lost my cats, I would have lost my house," Wilkowski told a reporter.
But those words did not move a local retailer, Doris Holmes, who just opened her own e-cigarette shop. Holmes downplayed the events, "Anything that's electronic and plugs into electricity, you have the potential for it catching on fire. I don't leave my dishwasher running when I leave my home."
According to E-cigarette trade association figures there are roughly 3.5 million of the devices in use.
"If I hadn't had been home, I would have lost my dogs, I would have lost my cats, I would have lost my house," Elizabeth Wilkowski told WSB-TV. "It was like, 'Kaboom!' And I see this flame shooting across my living room."
Wilkowski says she used a cleaning rag to grab the e-cigarette and extinguish the flame.
The store where she bought the device a smoke-free cigarette that delivers a nicotine kick in a cool mist said it no longer carries the eHit brand e-cigarette, which is made in China by Shenzhen Seego Technology.
According to the tobacco Vapor Electronic Cigarette Association, there are more than 3.5 million e-cigarettes in use in the United States.
A spokesman for the association told the Daily Mail there have been just two reported fire incidents involving e-cigarettes since 2007.
In February, a 57-year-old Florida man suffered severe injuries when an e-cigarette blew up in his face. Fire officials say the explosion was caused by a faulty battery.
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/...xploded-Shot-4-Foot-Flames-Across-Living-Room
[h=2]ATLANTA - "It wasn't a boom, it wasn't a pop...it was a Kaboom. It sounded like a bomb. My walls rattled. It shook the house up. I screamed. It was a real freak out moment." These are the words of a Grant Park woman who is claiming that an electronic cigarette she purchased with the intention of getting healthy, exploded, shooting flames across her living room, charring a sofa and a rug.[/h] Elizabeth Wilkowski used the rag in the picture above to protect her hand when she removed the E-cigarette from her computer's USB port where it had been charging.
"If I hadn't had been home, I would have lost my dogs, I would have lost my cats, I would have lost my house," Wilkowski told a reporter.
But those words did not move a local retailer, Doris Holmes, who just opened her own e-cigarette shop. Holmes downplayed the events, "Anything that's electronic and plugs into electricity, you have the potential for it catching on fire. I don't leave my dishwasher running when I leave my home."
According to E-cigarette trade association figures there are roughly 3.5 million of the devices in use.
