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It's certainly not normal but it's frankly inevitable. All it takes is some fraying wire, failing insulation, manufacturing defect on the PCB or components and something slightly flammable nearby (usually the product itself). That and how much stuff people usually have plugged in, somebody is going to experience a fire eventually.
Regulations on Chinese garbage are practically non existent. There are countless cheap chargers that will start fires. One nearly caused one in my home as a kid.
And yet I doubt anyone has heard of a washer (or phone) catching fire that wasn't made by Samsung. Why are you defending them?
I'm not, it's just that a lot of electronics and particularly bad ones catch fire.
Well I'm not sure what you call a lot, but I'd expect the percentage of cheap knockoff garbage to still be pretty low but I expect a huge company like Samsung to be much, much closer to zero.