About Quosio Fire Pits
Quosio sells a bioethanol and alcohol-burning tabletop fireplace on Amazon (ASIN B0CPPSDHWD) marketed as a portable s’mores maker kit for both indoor and outdoor use. The product is positioned as a gift under multiple categories including gifts for women, housewarming, Christmas, and White Elephant exchanges — meaning it frequently ends up in the hands of someone who received it as a gift and may have no familiarity with its fuel or the hazards it presents.
Quosio’s product listing specifically uses the phrase “balcony fire pit for apartment” — a designation that targets consumers in some of the most confined, least-ventilated settings in which an alcohol-fueled open-container fire can be used. Apartment balconies are typically small, surrounded by combustible building materials, and close to living spaces where any fire can spread rapidly.
Why Apartment Balconies Are Particularly Dangerous
The CPSC’s December 2024 consumer alert specifically identified indoor and enclosed settings as contexts of heightened concern for alcohol-burning fire pits — environments where limited ventilation makes the nearly invisible alcohol flame even harder to detect and where a fire can spread to adjacent materials before the user has time to respond [1]. An apartment balcony typically checks all of those boxes — small space, proximity to interior furnishings, and building materials on multiple sides.
A flame jetting event on an apartment balcony — triggered when a user pours fresh alcohol near a nearly invisible residual flame — does not just endanger the user. It can threaten everyone in the apartment, neighbors in adjacent units, and the structure itself. Marketing a product with this hazard profile specifically for apartment balcony use represents a significant failure to communicate the nature of the risk.
Regulatory Actions and Industry Accountability
In December 2024, the CPSC declared all alcohol-burning tabletop fire pits “extremely dangerous,” linking them to two deaths and more than 60 serious burn injuries and urging all consumers to stop using them and all sellers to stop selling them [1]. In July 2026, the CPSC issued a specific warning against Houswise Tabletop Fire Pits after seven consumers suffered burn injuries — including third-degree burns — and the manufacturer refused to recall the product [2].
Quosio is among the brands attorneys are actively investigating for burn injury claims nationwide. No formal recall is required for an injured consumer to pursue a product liability claim — what matters is whether the product was defectively designed and whether that defect caused the injury.
Can I File a Lawsuit?
Consumers who were burned while using a Quosio tabletop fire pit — whether on an apartment balcony, indoors, or in any other setting — may have significant legal options against the manufacturer, seller, or online platform. Contact an attorney promptly to have your case evaluated.
References
1. https://www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/2025/Consumer-Alert-Stop-Using-Alcohol-or-Other-Liquid-Burning-Fire-Pits-That-Violate-Voluntary-Standards-and-Present-Flame-Jetting-and-Fire-Hazards-Two-Deaths-and-Dozens-of-Serious-Burn-Injuries-Reported
2. https://www.cpsc.gov/Warnings/2026/CPSC-Warns-Consumers-to-Stop-Using-Houswise-Tabletop-Fire-Pits-Immediately-Due-to-Risk-of-Serious-Burn-Injury-or-Death-from-Flame-Jetting-and-Fire-Hazards