FOND DU LAC, WI (WTAQ) – An electronic-reading device exploded at a Fond du Lac elementary school Tuesday afternoon.
Fire Chief Peter O’Leary says thankfully the device wasn’t being used at the time of the incident.
“This e-reader spontaneously combusted. It was not being used, it was not plugged into a charging system. It was just sitting out on a counter and it caught fire.”
A teacher at Roberts Elementary was the first to smell smoke.
Officials checked to make sure there wasn’t a recall for the device.
“We talked to the manufacturer which is Acer and also we called the Consumer Product Safety Commission to alert them of it. We couldn’t find any specific recall,” said O’Leary.
The e-reader was manufactured in 2014.
“Some of these malfunctions are no fault of the consumer. They just have a defect,” O’Leary said.
No one was injured.
