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"Instead of picking up scraps of wrapping paper, a Citrus Heights, Calif. family spent part of Christmas morning extinguishing a gift that came from under the tree.Joey Thompson, 10, plugged his new remote-controlled helicopter into an outlet to charge up the batteries before its first flight when he heard a loud pop and noticed a distinct smell.When the boy's father, Phil, took the helicopter outside, it started to smoke and then the family said it burst into flames.\"I was freaked out,\" Joey said.The elder Thompson grabbed a garden hose and put out the fire.\"We were lucky that he was downstairs and heard it, or the thing would have caught fire right here,\" Phil Thompson said.The Thompsons bought the $60 helicopter from a third-party vendor through Amazon.com.After the fire, family members said they looked more closely at the packaging and realized the chopper looked just like the YD-911 Defender model they ordered, but it was delivered in a box labeled Warrior HK685, and had a bar code sticker pasted over other bar codes on the bottom of the box.Phil Thompson said whatever the name, the helicopter shouldn't have caught fire after charging up the batteries.\"If you follow these instructions, these toys should be safe and they usually are,\" Thompson said.The Consumer Product Safety Commission doesn't list recalls for the model the family received. A spokesperson for Amazon.com said the company guarantees products delivered will be the exact item that was ordered even if it was through a third-party vendor. Karri Thompson said her account has already been credited.PHOTOS: Dangerous toys list"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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