The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday announced a new recall of dangerous dehumidifiers and issued a reminder of a previous recall of units implicated in four deaths and hundreds of house fires, all by the same manufacturer.
The latest recall covers 42 models of dehumidifiers manufactured by Gree Electric Appliances of Zhuhai, China and linked to at least 23 fires. The units are sold under the brand names Kenmore, GE, SoleusAir, Norpole and Seabreeze.
