Less than a week after the holiday, Dolan said, the hoverboard “exploded while charging in a bedroom.” Loomis was “severely burned,” he said, “as she attempted to throw the burning toy from her home.”Īs it happens, L.A. That’s what happened with the hoverboard Loomis purchased via Amazon from a Chinese manufacturer as a Christmas present for her son. Trouble was, those batteries had an alarming habit of bursting into flames. They had wheels and were powered by lithium-ion batteries. The real-world versions weren’t nearly as cool as the one Marty McFly rode around on in the fictional California town of Hill Valley. Remember hoverboards? They were those self-balancing devices meant to resemble the flying skateboards from “Back to the Future Part II.” Jon Fawcett wanted to build a cellphone cable that wouldn’t fray.Īt issue here is a December 2015 purchase of a kids’ toy - a hoverboard - by Kisha Loomis, a resident of Oroville in Butte County, north of Sacramento. Technology and the Internet Extra inventory.
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