Whirlpool's white goods sparked more than three times as many fires as any other manufacturers in eight years.

Figures from London Fire Brigade show tumble dryers and other appliances under the US giant’s umbrella were involved in 895 of 2,891 fires in the capital.

Of these, 69 appliances were Whirlpool, 502 Hotpoint, 257 Indesit, 12 Proline, 51 Creda and four Swan. Bosch-group white goods were involved in 276 fires – 203 Bosch, 55 Neff and 18 Siemens.

Hoover/Candy were involved in 209 blazes, Beko with 191 and AEG/Electrolux/Zanussi with 157.
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Whirlpool was rocked by a fire-risk defect in dryers two years ago and replaced or repaired an estimated 3.8 million. The Mirror has called for recall system reforms. A Hotpoint fridge-freezer was claimed to have started June’s Grenfell Tower inferno.

Whirlpool said the LFB figures “could be misleading”, adding it was “unable to verify this data and therefore is unable to speculate”.