My Whirlpool dishwasher

[cfz2882]

Dishwasher fires

I just got done watching videos of dishwashers that had arcing or fire incidents and was suprized to see some well respected brands involved...Looked like these all were caused by "arc fault" short in the door when water got into line powered connections or PC boards...An AFCI circuit breaker likely would have tripped before the arcing got involved enough to cause fire.Old TVs and radios with interlock cord were also guilty of causing arc fault fires when they got wet too many times...

 

[henene4]

There have been recalls for DW fires (BSH), dryer fires (Indesit/Hotpoint) and washer fires (Indesit/Hotpoint or WP respectively - honestly don't know if the recall started before or after the buy up) here in the EU.

Any electrical appliances can fail in catastrophic ways, no matter how well it is built and how well you take care off.
Having any appliance run without supervision is a risk you take.

But I don't think the danger is all that big.
Again, appliances are designed to perform safely and consistently even in "typical" household use, and that includes no care at all.

Have let my oven run it's self clean cycle while going for a grocery trip.
If it's not on fire within the first hour, it probably won't go on fire later.
And if it burns, all I could do would be calling the fire department.
And if that ever happens, that's what insurance is for...

 

[tolivac]

For tubed radios-have seen many of these left plugged in for years without problem.At how quickly the fire burned my house-the sprinklers wouldn’t have made much difference. In the several min after I called the fire dept the house was halfway burned. And oh yes had a couple of tubed radios plugged in at the time. Nothing was running except HVAC-that was all new and the washer-dryer I was using to do laundry at the time. The fire started in the back half of the place where I wasn’t.