The deadline is fast approaching for residential and commercial property owners to report and receive replacements for defective fire sprinklers, recalled in June 2007. The initial recall, which includes a voluntary replacement program, included about 300,000 model J series dry fire sprinklers manufactured by Globe Fire Sprinkler. The recall was announced due to a concern that the sprinklers can deteriorate over time and fail to operate in a fire situation. The deadline for home and commercial property owners to submit a claim and receive replacement sprinkler heads is June 1, 2011.

In February, Ford announced a limited recall of just under 150,000 of its best-selling F150 pickup trucks, citing problems with the front airbags which could cause them to unexpectedly deploy. However, today the auto manufacturer has significantly expanded this recall to include almost 1.2 million vehicles.

Last March, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to interpret the Virginia Graeme Baker Pool and Spa Safety Act, named for a 7-year-old who died in a pool-drain incident in 2002, to no longer require back-up anti-entrapment systems in the drains of as many as 150,000 public and hotel pools and hot tubs. Now the CPSC has announced that the primary anti-entrapment systems on these same pools may have been improperly tested and unsafe.

This morning Toyota is announcing a recall of more than 2 million vehicles in the United States, saying they may pose a danger of the accelerator becoming entrapped in the floor mat. If this story sounds familiar, it should. The latest recall is an expansion of the company's earlier recall for this same problem, which it announced in 2009. This latest recall increases the total number of vehicles recalled by Toyota since 2009 to more than 14 million worldwide.