{"id":81153,"date":"2019-02-21T01:01:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/21\/fresh-concerns-over-whirlpools-fire-risk-tumble-dryer-repairs\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:01:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:01:41","slug":"fresh-concerns-over-whirlpools-fire-risk-tumble-dryer-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=81153","title":{"rendered":"Fresh concerns over Whirlpool&#039;s &#039;fire-risk&#039; tumble dryer repairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Which? calls for clarity after 30 consumers report \u2018fixed\u2019 dryers catching fire, producing smoke or burning smell A consumer group is calling for the urgent publication of a report into Whirlpool\u2019s fire-risk tumble dryers, amid fresh concerns about the manufacturer\u2019s repair programme and its handling of an issue that may have left up to 500,000 potentially dangerous machines in UK homes.Which? revealed it had been contacted by more than 30 consumers whose supposedly \u201cfixed\u201d tumble dryers had caught fire, produced smoke or the smell of burning. In some cases this appeared to be as a result of fluff catching on the heating element \u2013 the issue the modification was designed to fix, the consumer group said. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2019\/feb\/21\/fresh-concerns-over-whirlpools-fire-risk-tumble-dryer-repairs\" target=\"_blank\">Fresh concerns over Whirlpool&#039;s &#039;fire-risk&#039; tumble dryer repairs<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which? calls for clarity after 30 consumers report \u2018fixed\u2019 dryers catching fire, producing smoke or burning smell A consumer group is calling for the urgent publication of a report into Whirlpool\u2019s fire-risk tumble dryers, amid fresh concerns about the manufacturer\u2019s repair programme and its handling of an issue that may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}