Family warns others after iPhone 4 catches fire, explodes while charging - WBTV

CINCINNATI (Gray News/TMX) – An Ohio household wants to pass others aft an aged iPhone successful their possession caught occurrence portion they were charging it.

The Leisgang family, from Cincinnati, posted photos and video captured by information cameras of the telephone to their Facebook accounts.

Brian and Jennifer Leisgang said their kids were charging an aged iPhone 4 with an Apple charger erstwhile the instrumentality exploded and caught occurrence successful their kitchen. They said everyone was dormant astatine the time.

Fortunately conscionable the time before, the household had conscionable cleaned the accustomed schoolhouse books and papers that they usually kept connected the room countertops.

The Leisgangs said they woke to pieces of the telephone and achromatic soot covering the counter.

They said they wanted to stock the images of the telephone to pass others of the imaginable hazard that could travel with charging older devices.

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