Most parents assume that if a smoke alarm is chirping away in the hallway, their sleeping children are protected. The uncomfortable truth is that a common placement choice, keeping detectors outside ...

I found two recent television reports from out of the area that had some disturbing news about smoke detectors. In both cases, the news stations set off the detectors in the middle of the night as a ...

Fire and carbon monoxide incidents move fast, but your alarms do not have to be guesswork. If you match the right type of detector to each room, you turn your house into a network of early warnings ...

Families with deaf or hard of hearing children in Springfield are receiving specialized smoke alarm devices. Bed shaker alarms, which vibrate to alert individuals during a fire emergency, are being ...