About CAMPLIVINGFIRE Fire Pit Products
CAMPLIVINGFIRE markets a line of tabletop fire pits sold primarily through Amazon, including a round concrete smokeless tabletop fire pit with dual burner cups and a portable campfire unit designed for outdoor use at camping, parties, and picnics. Both product lines use rubbing alcohol as fuel — the same type of liquid-burning design that has generated dozens of serious burn injury lawsuits against manufacturers and retailers nationwide.
The products are marketed as smokeless, safe for indoor and patio use, and suitable for use as a s’mores maker and decorative fire feature. That marketing framing — emphasizing safety and indoor suitability for an open-flame alcohol-burning device — is central to the product liability claims now being filed across the country against tabletop fire pit manufacturers.
The CPSC Warning and the Scale of the Hazard
On December 19, 2024, the CPSC issued an urgent product safety warning advising consumers to immediately stop using alcohol and other liquid-burning fire pits, stating that these products have been linked to at least two deaths and at least 60 injuries since 2019 and that the fuel used in these devices can cause third-degree burns in less than one second. The CPSC further advised sellers to stop selling these products, a step that stops short of a formal mandatory recall but signals the agency’s determination that the product category poses an unacceptable consumer risk.
The CPSC warning was not the first federal action in this category: the agency had already announced a formal recall of approximately 89,500 Colsen fire pits in October 2024 following at least 31 reports of flame jetting and flash fires — including 19 burn injuries — and in September 2025 recalled approximately 66,000 Five Below concrete tabletop fire pits. In August 2026, the CPSC announced an additional recall covering approximately 48,700 Brookstone-branded tabletop fire pits after reports of flame jetting, second-degree burns, and third-degree burns. Tabletop fire pit recalls and safety actions now span multiple brands and multiple years.
How Flame Jetting Causes Severe Burns
Flame jetting is the burn mechanism at the center of nearly every tabletop fire pit injury lawsuit filed to date, and it is directly caused by the fundamental design of these products. Alcohol-burning fire pits produce a flame that is nearly invisible in daylight — a colorless or pale blue burn that is extremely difficult to see even when the unit is actively on fire.
When a user believes the fuel is spent or the flame has gone out and pours additional fuel into the burner cup, the alcohol contacts a surface that is still hot or still burning invisibly. The heat vaporizes the poured liquid into a flammable cloud that ignites instantly, sending a jet of burning alcohol outward toward the person pouring. The result is a sudden, violent explosion of flame that can project burning fuel several feet in any direction — toward the face, arms, chest, or bystanders — with no warning and no time to react. Because the fuel used causes third-degree burns in under one second, the speed of the flame jet determines the severity of the injury: there is no safe stopping point between ignition and contact.
Manufacturers of these products know that their fuel produces an invisible flame and that users routinely cannot distinguish between an active burn and an extinguished one. Warning labels that say “do not add fuel while burning” do not address the design problem: the product makes it functionally impossible for a user to determine with certainty whether it is still burning.
Reported Injuries and Deaths
The CPSC has documented at least two deaths and more than 60 burn injuries associated with tabletop alcohol-burning fire pits since 2019. Reported injuries across the category include first-, second-, and third-degree burns to the face, hands, arms, and torso; permanent scarring; skin grafts; nerve damage; hospitalization; and inhalation injuries from inhaling burning fuel vapor. A November 2024 death in Baltimore was linked to an alcohol-burning fire pit; a December 2024 incident involving a 9-year-old child and an adult woman resulted in serious burns from an indoor ignitable liquid flame kit. In 2025, Cleveland Browns tight end David Njoku was among the publicly identified fire pit burn victims.
No injuries or deaths specifically attributed to CAMPLIVINGFIRE fire pit products had been publicly documented by federal regulators as of the time of publication. However, the CPSC’s December 2024 warning applies to all alcohol-burning tabletop fire pits as a product category, not to individual brands, and attorneys investigating CAMPLIVINGFIRE have placed it within the same defective-design framework that has generated lawsuits against Colsen, Five Below, Brookstone, and other manufacturers.
Why These Products Keep Reaching Consumers
The majority of tabletop fire pits implicated in burn injury lawsuits were sold through Amazon, Walmart, Wayfair, and similar large-platform retailers, often by small or foreign manufacturers operating through third-party marketplace listings. That distribution structure complicates the legal landscape: when the company that manufactured a product is difficult to identify or has no substantial U.S. presence, courts have increasingly examined the liability of the platform retailer that facilitated the sale.
Lawsuits filed against Amazon in connection with tabletop fire pit injuries have alleged that the company knew of the flame-jetting hazard across the product category, continued to list and fulfill these products after reports of injuries and federal warnings, and bears responsibility as a seller under product liability law. CAMPLIVINGFIRE products sold through Amazon listings may be subject to the same legal theory.
Can I Join the Class Action Lawsuit?
If you were burned while using a CAMPLIVINGFIRE fire pit — or while near one when flame jetting occurred — you may have a product liability claim against CAMPLIVINGFIRE and any retailers that sold the product. Contact an attorney promptly, as state filing deadlines apply.
Fire Pit Safety: What to Do Now
The CPSC has directed consumers to immediately stop using alcohol-burning and other liquid-burning tabletop fire pits and to dispose of them. Do not attempt to use a CAMPLIVINGFIRE fire pit or any tabletop fire pit that burns rubbing alcohol, bio-ethanol, isopropyl alcohol, or similar liquid fuels — particularly indoors or on enclosed patios. If you have sustained burn injuries in connection with a fire pit, seek medical attention immediately and preserve the product and any packaging, receipts, or photos for use in a potential legal claim.
References
1. https://www.johnsonbecker.com/product-liability/fire-pit-lawsuits-two-deaths-and-dozens-of-serious-burn-injuries-reported-since-2019
2. https://www.youhavealawyer.com/tabletop-fire-pit-lawsuit
3. https://timesofsandiego.com/life/2026/08/06/lawsuit-amazon-third-degree-burns-tabletop-fire-pit/