COLUMBUS, Miss. (WCBI) – It’s a fire hazard in your home that may often get overlooked – your clothes dryer.

Columbus Fire and Rescue Chief Duane Hughes said that when they see dryer fires, they often occur due to a lack of preventative maintenance, and lint is highly flammable.

“A lot of people don’t check their lint traps. Or if they do, they do it irregularly,” Hughes said.

Chief Hughes said his department recommends that anytime you remove a load of laundry, you check the lint trap and remove the lint.

“What tends to happen is those that don’t check their lint traps, don’t keep them regularly clean, you get an accumulation that’s built up,” Hughes said. “The heat or sometimes just repeated use of that dryer will cause that lint to ignite, and it’s a pretty bad situation. ”

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