I don’t understand why they waited so long to make a recall when my house burned down in January more than two years ago. My home burned in the middle of the night while we were all sleeping because of a Lasko box fan. My family and I made it out safetly with nothing but the clothes on our backs and we are still dealing with the desvastation it caused.

Our house burned down on sept 11th 2012 due to a Lasko box fan. State Farm is pursuing Lasko for all of our damages. I need to find someone who will represent us for all the things that cant be paid for. we had injuries and lost work and we are just now getting back in our home. To top it off the fire restoration company that was holding all of our things that were saved in the Lasko fire burned to the ground 3 weeks before we were to move back in. We lost everything in this chain of events because of a cheep box fan.

Laurie, Did you find out anything? We had a fire on 7.14.15 and would like to pursue for damages also. I’m wondering what you may have found out.

I have some Lasko box fans. One I purchased from Walmart not too long ago, the switch quit. Prior to quitting, there was an occasional electrical smell. First two of the settings on the 3 spd fan quit and not too long after, the final High setting quit. Lasko has done ZERO to be helpful except to say the date stamped on the bottom exceeds their 1 year courtesy replacement. They didn’t acknowledge the electrical smell or the switch quitting even though the fan still looks brand new. Because I’m an allergy sufferer, I said if they would offer a cut rate (due to the potential fire hazard and loss taken on that fan), on their filtered box fan I would purchase it. They didn’t acknowledge that either. Now I am left to file a consumer complaint with the state and federal consumer safety commission and the AG’s because Lasko should take responsibility plus the public has a right to know. Here’s the response I received from Lasko: “Thank you for your reply and we apologize for any inconvenience you may have encountered with the unit. As a clarifier, your model B20308 is not currently and has not been subjected to any recalls in the past. ” and “it appears that at this time your product would be outside of any replacement options we can offer. ” Zero resolve on Lasko’s part.

The problem is that the oil wicking there putting in the fans motors is insufficient and I found that out myself with five of there fans that I dissambled and there so called security screws they use to keep you out don’t work, if you drive your car with no oil the engine will sieze or come to pieces and of course the company says it’s a electric problem cause nobody would admit they intentionally made them with really no oil so they will tear up and you have to buy another one but instead there catching fire and quality control is non existent nowadays