Fire Extinguishers: CPSC recalls in this category

10 CPSC recalls are in the product category Fire Extinguishers. That is 0.1% of the 10,027 CPSC recalls on the register. The notices give about 6,098,900 units for these recalls. The median recall has 167,000 units.

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Federal law prohibits any person from selling products subject to a Commission ordered recall or a voluntary recall undertaken in consultation with the CPSC.
CPSC publishes these words. Source: CPSC recall notices, section About the U.S. CPSC, read on 1 Oct 2026. The hazard, the remedy and the incident text on this site are the words of the CPSC recall notice. Newest CPSC recall on the register: 24 Sep 2026.

Newest recalls

The newest 10 of 10.

Newest CPSC recalls in the category Fire Extinguishers
Date	Recall	Firm	Hazard	Units	CPSC number
10 Sep 2026	Prepared Hero Recalls Fire Spray Canisters Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire and Burn Hazards		Fire, Burn	31,000	26755
12 Feb 2015	Kidde Recalls Disposable Plastic Fire Extinguishers Due to Failure to Discharge	Walter Kidde Portable Equipment	Fire	4,600,000	15079
12 Mar 2009	Kidde Recalls to Replace Fire Extinguishers Due to Failure to Operate	Walter Kidde Portable Equipment	Fire	167,000	09151
13 Nov 2006	ANSUL Recalls Fire Extinguisher that Could Fail to Operate	Ansul	Fire	154,000	07507
7 Feb 2006	CPSC, SFC America Announce Recall to Repair Fire Extinguishers	Strike First Corp., of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada	Fire	50,900	06084
26 Jul 2005	CPSC, Kidde Announce Recall of Industrial Fire Extinguishers	Walter Kidde Portable Equipment	Fire	470,000	05589
27 Sep 2000	CPSC, BRK Announce Recall of First Alert Fire Extinguishers	BRK Brands	Fire	600,000	00188
18 May 2000	CPSC, Discount Stores Announce Recall of Fire Extinguishers	99 Cents Only Store, in City	Fire, Explosion	26,000	00111
3 Jan 1997	Fire Extinguishers Recalled by Bernzomatic	Bernzomatic	Fire, Explosion		77001
30 May 1991	Explosion Hazard Of Fire Extinguishers Prompts American LaFrance And BECO Recall	Badger-Powhatan	Fire, Explosion		91080

Hazard: The way a product can cause harm, in the words of the CPSC recall notice. This site also puts each recall under short hazard names.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Hazards

Fire Extinguishers: recalls that name each hazard
Hazard		Recalls
Fire		10
Explosion		3
Burn		1

Firms

Firms with a page, in the order of the number of recalls.

Recalls by year

CPSC recalls in the category Fire Extinguishers, by the year of the recall date. The largest year is 2000, with 2 recalls.

Units in these recalls: 6,098,900
Median units of one recall: 167,000All CPSC recalls: 8,800
Share of all CPSC recalls on the register: 0.1%

Official channels

CPSC recallsThe list of all recall notices on the CPSC site.
SaferProducts.govThe CPSC site for a report about a consumer product.

Cite this page

Recall Register. Fire Extinguishers: CPSC recalls in this category. https://recallregister.com/category/fire-extinguishers/. Source: CPSC Recall Retrieval Web Services. Data through 29 Sep 2026.

Sources

Source: US Consumer Product Safety Commission
Licence: US government work, public domain
Data retrieved: 29 Sep 2026

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Questions

Which hazards do the recalls in the category Fire Extinguishers have?: Fire: 10 recalls. Explosion: 3 recalls. Burn: 1 recall.
What is the newest CPSC recall in the category Fire Extinguishers?: CPSC recall 26755, with the recall date 10 Sep 2026. The CPSC title is: Prepared Hero Recalls Fire Spray Canisters Due to Risk of Serious Injury or Death from Fire and Burn Hazards
Which firms have a page and a recall in the category Fire Extinguishers?: 2 firms on this page. The list is in the order of the number of recalls and starts with Walter Kidde Portable Equipment, with 3.
Where does the category Fire Extinguishers come from?: Fire Extinguishers is a product type of CPSC. This site uses the type of the first product of a recall. Most records before 2010 have no product type.