Toys 'R' Us Pulls Tonka Truck After It Catches Fire
BELLINGHAM, Wash. (CBS) – Toys 'R' Us has pulled a Tonka ride-on dump truck from store shelves after one of the toys burst into flames soon after it was purchased.
According to Seattle CBS affiliate KIRO-TV, Roxsane and Delmond Harden of Bellingham, Washington purchased the 12-volt Tonka Mighty Wheels Dump truck for their grandson on Friday night. Heading home from the store, the couple realized the toy caught fire in the bed of their pickup.
"I said, 'We gotta pull over,'" Roxsane told KIRO-TV. "'We gotta get out of this truck.' So we pulled over, flames start shooting."
The flames were so intense and so stubborn that even the fire extinguishers the Washington state trooper used couldn't douse them.
"The officer, when he looked on, he said, 'The flames appeared to be 15, 20 feet high,'" said Delmond. "Yeah, it was pretty shocking."
The fire department was called in to put out the flames.
Toys 'R' Us spokeswoman Nicole Hayes said in a statement to The Associated Press that the incident appears to be isolated, but the New Jersey-based company is pulling the item from stores and its website "pending further investigation."
Hayes said Toys 'R' Us is working with the truck's manufacturer, Dynacraft, to determine a cause.
