A Winnipeg woman says she never imagined her dog could start a fire on her stove, but now she's warning the public that's just what happened — and she says she didn't find out a safety recall had been issued for her appliance until after the fire.

Michelle Burkowski had new Samsung appliances, including a range, installed in May 2024, and says she was initially very pleased with them.

But one day in May 2025, she came home to find her house filled with smoke and a fire burning on the range.

"I ran into the kitchen to check on the dog, and that's when I noticed that there was a book on fire on top of the stove. And of course, I shouldn't have left the book on the stove," she said in an interview.

She put the fire out and made sure her dog, Buster, was all right.

That's when she realize

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