"FIREGEL" A DANGEROUS PRODUCT, EXPLOSIVE FIREBOMB BURNS CONSUMERS
Product warning - reported by the New York Times
From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Brooklyn accident injury lawyer)
This consumer product danger is so new that the Consumer Product Safety Commission has just now opened an investigation.
The product is a gel or jelly-like fuel for outdoor ceramic lamps, that has a citronella scent to repel insects. New York, Brooklyn, Queens residents have been getting nasty burns in accidents with this product.
The fuel is called "FireGel," and sold as the Safe Pourable Gel.
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Witnesses say it explodes like a firebomb. Like gasoline in a bottle, except it's more like napalm, which sticks on the skin and keeps burning. So the gel "cooks" your body.
Those reported injured in horrible Firegel accidents include a 14-year-old Long Island boy injured on May 28th and now fighting for his life, after trying to light a lamp for a backyard wedding, and a 24-year-old New York City man badly burned on June 3rd while sitting outside with a friend.
Relatives and survivors say the jelly-like product has insufficient warnings and does not indicate how it can inflict lethal injury in an accident. New York consumers' unfamiliarity with the fuel gel could pose a risk - especially if they try to refill lit lamps or lamps that are still hot.
Told by The New York Times about the two explosions in New York, Napa Home & Garden Inc., which manufactures the lamps and packages the fuel, asked Bed Bath & Beyond on Friday to recall both products from store shelves until it could add stronger accident prevention warning labels to both.
The parent of one 24-year-old accident victim is quoted as saying, "It should say 'lethal weapon."
The Consumer Product Safety Commission announced that it was opening an investigation into this product.
The CPSC said it had received eight reports of explosions or burns involving firepots or fuel gel, several of them serious, since April 2010, not counting the New York cases.
It is unclear what companies produced the products involved in those cases.
There may very well be products liaiblity lawsuits brought in the future on behalf of these burned New York accident victims. Beware residents of Brooklyn and Queens.
