Samsung Galaxy S9 Phone Catches Fire In Odessa, Florida

An Odessa man hit record as his girlfriend’s Samsung Galaxy S9 started smoking. Just 24 hours before the phone burst into fire, Dave Warden III and his girlfriend were on a flight. Warden’s smoking phone incident could be the first publicly reported case since the Note 7s notorious exploding problems back in 2016. Warden was wrapping up dinner when he looked over and saw the phone starting to smoke on his kitchen counter. "There was popping, cracking, tingling," he said. Soon, he says, the smoke turned to 12-inch high flames. Warden says he made the mistake of grabbing it off the counter attempting to throw the phone into the sink.