A 14-year-old Maine girl reportedly suffered second-degree burns when her iPhone 5c caught fire in her pants pocket. According to the report, the girl and her friends heard a “pop” from the phone, which then started billowing smoke and caught fire.
The girl stopped, dropped, and rolled, then had to remove her pants, and sustained burns on her thigh and back. “The phone fell out of her pocket … and it was still smoldering,” school principal Jeff Rodman said.
Area repair shop owner Andrew Rosenstein noted of the iPhone’s lithium-ion battery, “It’s very rare there can be an issue, but any battery is just a chemical composition that can be flammable in extreme circumstances.” Several battery issues with prior iPhones have been blamed on third-party chargers. [via Morning Sentinel]
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