If you have a Dell notebook, it is likely that your battery has been recalled according to the New York Times. Dell is the victim of the largest safety recall in the history of consumer electronics having to recall 4,100,000 batteries.

The batteries were sold between April 2004 and July 18, 2006. The recall is a result of several laptop fires such as this one:

Dell has been bedeviled by reports of burning laptops in recent months. In June, a Dell notebook burst into flames during a conference in a hotel in Osaka, Japan. In July, firefighters in Vernon Hills, Ill., were called to the office of Tetra Pak, the food processing and packaging company, to extinguish a notebook fire hot enough to burn the desk beneath it.