We all keep clearing the dryer filter after every load, when it’s the flexible tube behind the machine that decides how the cycle ends
You’ve been cleaning the wrong thing. While the lint trap catches surface debris, the real fire risk hides in the flexible tube behind your dryer—where lint accumulates invisibly, cycle after cycle. Dryer fires cause 15 deaths annually and over $100 million in property damage, yet most of that danger goes completely unnoticed.