Feb 23, 2017
Faulty tumble dryers: More than 35,000 sign recall petition
More than 35,000 people have signed a parliamentary petition to force Whirlpool to recall three million potentially dangerous tumble dryers. Don Kiddle, from Stratford on Avon, said Whirlpool had refused to replace his Indesit dryer until he wrote to his MP. "I contacted my local MP, Nadhim Zawalhi. He in turn wrote to the chief executive and surprisingly enough we were contacted by the company who delivered a brand new tumble dryer and took the old one away. The item was at zero cost too." The LGA repeated warnings that faulty tumble dryers are causing three fires a day, although not all of these are Whirlpool machines. "For needless months, consumers have been playing 'Russian roulette' with at-risk tumble dryers prone to bursting into flames and destroying homes, and with firefighters attending three fires a day caused by the appliances," said Cllr Simon Blackburn, chair of the LGA's safer and stronger communities board. The London Fire Brigade alone said it was attending a tumble dryer fire once a day on average.
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