Millions of U.S. and Canadian homes were built with circuit breaker panels that one expert has questioned as a potential fire hazard. Issues about Federal Pacific Electric’s “Stab-Lok ...

The “Stab-Lok” circuit breaker and panel produced by Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) installed in hundreds of thousands of homes in the Bay Area may cause house fires, according decades of ...

Sometimes, Federal Pacific Electric breakers fail to trip ... “The Federal Pacific Electrical panels are notorious for malfunctioning. Many of these circuit breakers fail to trip during an ...

Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) sold millions of panels between the 1950's and 1980's. Testing by the Consumer Product Safety Commision has shown these breakers to have an unacceptably high rate of ...

The Federal Pacific Electric company no longer exists ... Columbus Fire Department Fire Marshal Troy Todd said that the panel’s faulty breakers are cause for concern and could lead to a ...