Nearly eight months after the Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled more than 500,000 “hoverboard” scooters from eight manufacturers over fire hazards posed by the devices lithium-ion battery backs, the agency has opened an investigation into a fire that killed a 3-year-old girl in Pennsylvania on Friday. A CPSC spokesman Tweeted over the weekend that the agency is working to open a federal investigation into the fire, which authorities say occurred shortly before 8 p.m. Friday night in Harrisburg, PA, when a hoverboard plugged into an outlet caught fire.
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