Each has been charged with felony counts of recklessly causing a fire resulting in great bodily injury and recklessly causing a fire to an inhabited structure.
Last month, a portable DVD player was dropped on an American Airlines flight, causing a fire.
Mr. Olukunle was charged with one felony count of recklessly causing a fire.
"I've never heard of an outage of electricity like that causing a fire that lasted as long as that.
In February 2004 Abu Sayyaf bombed a ferry departing from Manila, causing a fire and killing at least 116 people.
The five are charged with recklessly causing a fire with great bodily injury and recklessly causing fire to inhabited structures.
The first report of a dehumidifier causing a fire came last fall, said the Whirlpool spokesman, Christopher Wyse.
All Dreamliners were grounded after incidents when batteries overheated, causing a fire on a parked plane in one case (see picture).
The uranium thus released began to oxidize, releasing radioactivity and causing a fire that burned for 16 hours before it was put out.
If the switch becomes wet, it could short-circuit, possibly causing a fire, Honda told the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in a report in January 2010.
In one instance described in the report, a high-voltage power cable at Progress Energy's Robinson Nuclear Power Plant, near Hartsville, S.C., failed, causing a fire.
