An owner of an Apple MacBook Pro has just recently suffered from minor injuries as their laptop’s battery spontaneously combusted into flames. The laptop in question was the 2015 MacBook Pro.
For those unaware, this was the same model that was banned from some airlines as its battery was considered a potential fire hazard. Reddit user u/Squeezieful shared the details of the event on the social media platform. He showed his hands that faces minor burns after trying to remove the burning laptop from under their bed. While the users only faced minor injuries, the potential damage could’ve been quite big as the flames would possibly have led to major property damage (such as a house fire) or even worse injuries.
According to the user, the MacBook Pro was placed under the bed in sleep mode and was not on charging. But then, the owner was woken up by the fumes caused by the melting plastic case of the laptop and likely due to the burning lithium ion battery as well. This prompted him to remove the notebook from under the bed, which even caused the owner’s carpet to be burned. The Reddit user can be considered lucky as he noticed the smoke, but the toxic fumes and fire could have been fatal. Back in 2015, Apple had issued a large recall for its 15 inch MacBook Pro laptops that were sold between September 2015 and February 2016.
The recall arrived as a number of MacBook Pro units started facing incidents such as swelling and exploding. This even caused damage to property and got the model labelled as a fire hazard. Meaning, the unlucky incident that took place recently was likely due to user owning this faulty version of the MacBook Pro. But while it might be easy to say that the owner should’ve just returned it before, the Reddit user stated that his laptop had been “already been serviced for this issue,” when he had submitted its model number into the battery recall program form. Now, it remains to be seen how Apple responds to this matter.
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