Source: CTV News, June 28, 2018
Health Canada is investigating after a portable power bank used to charge cell phones caught fire and scorched the floor of a Vancouver Island home.
Marina Winkler of Metchosin, B.C., located approximately 20 kilometres southwest of Victoria, says she plugged the power bank into a wall outlet to charge, and when she came back to check up on it she saw “smoke and a little flame” coming from the device.
“I unplugged it and stepped on the flame and basically just left that on the ground because I didn’t want to touch it,” Winkler told CTV Vancouver Island.
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