Just when we thought that the incidents of an iPhone exploding in Brazil and self combusting on an Australian airline were isolated incidents, we have another iPhone user, this time a firefighter in the Pennsylvanian town of East Brandywine reporting that his iPhone 4 "spontaneously caught fire" while charging.
MacRumors points to the following report on East Brandywine Fire Company's website:
While charging the phone using the Apple provided computer connection, the phone spontaneously caught fire.
After the phone fell to the floor igniting the carpet, the phone was thrown out a nearby window.
Despite the phone being relatively small it produced a large volume of smoke and a noxious smell.
MacRumors reports that the department has sent the damaged iPhone to Apple headquarters in California to investigate the cause of the fire.
These are not the only incidents where users have reported that their iPhone has caught fire. Back in July 2010, a report claimed that an iPhone 4 apparently caught fire and burnt the users hand.
[via MacRumors]
i hear the next samsung advert is going to be showing a group of people waiting in line at a apple store on fire…
This is very scary! But doesn’t Samsung make many of the iPhone’s parts? They really ought to stay out of this one – AND – perhaps check their own backyard!
they must have been useing sonic lighter.pmsl.
sorry couldnt resist that.
Apple is associated with Osama Bin Laden..! They are terrorists… When Apple fills United States and parts of the world with iphones…. iPhones will explode and will be the beginning of the Armageddon….! U_U
LOL! is just that over charging may cause the phone to overheat!
All they need to do is download the fire proof app!!! Thats it
ROTFL
That must be the new Al Qaeda remote terrorist app!! screw cars there blowing iphones now! lol
I didn’t know the iPhone was around on September 11 2001? We all know how the World Trade Center exploded now!
i would straight up sue they`re assess for near death experience.
those should stop using 3rd party chargers.
This is very Spontaneously news ! its even more Spontaneously insane how the person that had his iphone catch on fire is a fireman this sounds to Spontaneously to be Spontaneously true
Spontaneously.
This is some thing New Never heard it Before But its just an electronic device anything could be possible……!!!
Firefighter’s iPhone catching fire? Coincidence.
Probably gave a top secret mission and self destructed in 5 secs after…. – Mission Impossible.
corporate espionage