Jemma (left) and Vicki needed to drag a burning tumble dryer out of their flat.
New fears have been raised about tumble dryers bursting into flames, regardless of efforts to change the machines.
The BBC's Watchdog Live shopper programme has uncovered circumstances during which the machines have caught hearth after being fastened.
Some 5.3 million tumble dryers beneath the Hotpoint, Creda and Indesit manufacturers required modification.
Whirlpool, which owns the manufacturers, stated it had whole confidence within the repair.
The authentic defect was found in 2015 and has reportedly led to scores of fires since 2004. The firm started a big operation to change or exchange dryers to ensures they had been secure.
However, Watchdog spoke to Vicki Mudge and her sister-in-law Jemma Greenslade who stated they needed to drag Vicki's burning tumble dryer out of their flat. It had earlier been modified.
"You do belief them to assume they're fixing one thing so it will be okay. It is disgusting actually," Jemma stated.
They stated that, as they lived in a block of flats, the hearth might have been a threat to their neighbours.
Domestic service engineer Graham Watkinsonwho's labored with electrical home equipment for over 40 yearsbelieves the modification doesn't completely take away the danger.
Charlie Pugsley, deputy assistant commissioner on the London Fire Brigade, stated he was critically involved concerning the stories of modified dryers catching hearth.
"There goes to be a time delay between the modification and the fires occurring so if we're beginning to see one or two, I'd think about it is just going to worsen," he stated.
"Each hearth has bought the potential to do big harm to somebody's dwelling and threat lives."
In August 2016, a dryerawaiting modificationwas blamed for a big hearth in a West London tower block, with greater than 50 individuals pressured to flee their houses.
Despite that incident the corporate continued to state the machines had been secure to make use of so long as somebody was within the property.
Which? threatened to deliver judicial evaluation proceedings towards Trading Standards over the recommendation being given. Trading Standards instructed Whirlpool to difficulty new steerage earlier final 12 months that the dryers needs to be unplugged and never be used till that they had been repaired.
Andy Slaughter, the MP within the space of the tower block hearth, stated: "I'm actually fearful that individuals now assume that the issue is solvedthat they'll exit, fall asleep and go away machines onas a result of they've been modified or changed, however really there may be nonetheless an actual danger that they may catch hearth."
In an assertion Whirlpool stated: "We have whole confidence within the modification. Extensive testing and evaluation of the modification each earlier than and since its implementation has proven it offers an efficient resolution for the problem.
"An exterior evaluation with the enter from three impartial specialists in hearth security, product security, and engineering, concluded that the modification stays the best method of rectifying this difficulty for shoppers.
"There have been no reported incidents the place the modification has proven to be ineffective. Recent criticisms of the effectiveness of the modification are primarily based on elementary technical misunderstandings of what it addresses. We are involved that such misinformed criticism dangers discouraging shoppers from registering for this vital security modification.
"We proceed to induce shoppers to contact us instantly in the event that they imagine they nonetheless personal an affected equipment. We can guarantee shoppers that in the event that they contact us now, they'll obtain a decision inside one week."
Watchdog Live is on BBC One at 20:00 on Wednesday