MERIDIAN TWP., Mich. (WILX) - Two battery fires in less than two weeks left a Meridian Township family displaced from their home and searching for answers about the safety of common household devices.

Lithium-ion batteries are found in phones, laptops and countless other devices we all use on a daily basis.

Fire officials say more of these batteries are bursting into flames without warning in what experts call “thermal runaway.”

First fire: Headphones in the garage

Thick black smoke poured from Rose Tantraphol and Scott Swanson’s Meridian Township garage this past June.

“I heard yelling. I heard my wife yelling. So I ran downstairs, had no idea what was going on,” Scott Swanson said.

“I always check all the doors in our house before I go to bed. And I always also check the door that

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