Daily Mirror

Government must act now to stop fires and save lives

- BY PETER VICARY-SMITH

EIGHT house fires a day are linked to home appliances.

That’s 60 homes a week going up in flames and lives put at risk due to unsafe products, such as washing machines, tumble dryers and fridge-freezers.

The Mirror has worked hard to highlight this issue and called for tough action from the Government – and we join it in saying, “Enough is enough”.

Product safety is a vital issue and, today, we launch our own campaign to “End Dangerous Products”.

It is unacceptab­le for manufactur­ers to leave potentiall­y dangerous goods in people’s homes.

And we need to see action when companies are falling short – such as Whirlpool’s failure to remove the remaining one million fire-risk tumble dryers from homes.

The Government must act now to stop further devastatin­g fires.

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