CPSC recalled about 554,780 Kobalt 24-volt and 48-volt yard tools because USB-C batteries can short while charging inside a tool, and the Thursday notice records 34 reports of smoke, sparks, or fire but no injuries or property damage. [1]

The immediate instruction is narrower than the list of 20 products: stop charging a battery through its USB-C port while it remains in the tool, and note that only batteries with those ports are covered, so owners need not mistake the product universe for the failure condition itself. [1]

Owners can check five battery families, KB 324-06, KB 424-06, KB 524-06, KB 624-06, and KXB 824-06, then request replacement batteries without the port plus a charger adapter, warning label, updated manual, and return label. [1]

Battery-fire searches found no verified X post about the charging configuration and no independent MSM report was verified, leaving the primary notice to identify one behavior owners can stop before replacement batteries and charger adapters arrive without turning a long product list into a verdict on every lithium yard tool.

The replacement package preserves the same boundary: removing the USB-C port and adding a separate charger adapter eliminate the named in-tool path, while the warning label and updated manual keep the changed procedure visible after the notice is forgotten and the return label completes the battery-return procedure.

-- PRIYA SHARMA, Delhi