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Former electric heater company Vornado will pay the government a civil penalty of $500,000 and deny any wrongdoing for failing to report incidents of heater fires from 1993 to 2004, says the CPSC. “In August 2004, CPSC and Vornado announced the recall of about one million portable electric heaters,” then the company dissolved. [CPSC]

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