{"id":956,"date":"2016-01-05T08:16:21","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/a-family-lost-their-home-after-kids-hoverboard-causes-house-fire\/"},"modified":"2016-01-05T08:16:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T00:16:21","slug":"a-family-lost-their-home-after-kids-hoverboard-causes-house-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/01\/05\/a-family-lost-their-home-after-kids-hoverboard-causes-house-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"A family lost their home after kid's hoverboard causes house fire"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Have we reached the point yet where hoverboards<\/a> are just not worth the risk?<\/p>\n

On Monday night local time, a Melbourne family lost their home after a hoverboard, which they said had been left charging for only 10 minutes, caused a major fire.<\/p>\n

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See also: The biggest tech fails of 2015: Hoverboards, Puls and more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The burnt hoverboard.<\/p>\n<\/figcaption>

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Image: MFB Media<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The Metropolitan Fire Brigade, which attended the fire, said in an online statement<\/a> the device was on charge in a girl’s bedroom when it combusted. Luckily, the family of five got out of the house safely along with their pets.<\/p>\n

This is certainly not the first time a hoverboard has caught fire. Try this one<\/a>, or this one<\/a>, or this one<\/a>. You get the picture. Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n

More about Australia<\/a>, Tech<\/a>, Gadgets<\/a>, and Hoverboard<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Have we reached the point yet where hoverboards are just not worth the risk? On Monday night local time, a Melbourne family lost their home after a hoverboard, which they said had been left charging for only 10 minutes, caused … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,206,481,1,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-gadgets","category-hoverboard","category-other","category-tech"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}