Posted by Kitchen Design

Some Australian homes are potential firebombs likely to destroy everything in their path - and most people don't know it.

Four months ago Today Tonight alerted viewers to possible tragedies in 25,000 Australian kitchens, with defective washing machines causing serious house fires.

An electrical fault in a number of big name electrical appliances causes them to suddenly ignite and burn down kitchens, sometimes destroying whole houses.

Dangerous dishwashers are thought to have caused 239 fires in Australia, burning down bench tops, whole kitchens, and in some cases, setting alight, melting and destroying whole homes and their contents.

Even with a nation-wide recall, the NSW Department of Fair Trading banning the sale of these appliances, and the manufacturer supposedly repairing or replacing thousands of faulty machines, the fire toll keeps rising and rising.

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(via Today Tonight)

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