On Thursday, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission issued arecall of the new Samsung phones, saying that defective Note 7 batteries had been linked to "26 reports of burns and 55 reports of property damage, including fires in cars and a garage."
The recall followed numerous recent reports, including one last Tuesday, when Port St. Lucie police officers responded to a report of a car on fire in a residential neighborhood in the southern Florida beach city. They found a vehicle "fully engulfed in flames."
The driver, who was unharmed, told police he had been charging his Samsung 7 phone when it burst into flames .... https://www.washingtonpost.com
