Your home’s first line of defense against fires and smoke are its smoke detectors. These devices pick up on smoke in the air and alert you to its presence. The idea is that the alarm will activate and ...

The American Red Cross Hawaii State Chapter wants residents to stay safe by having working smoke alarms in their home. The organization has installed 320 free smoke alarms in 79 homes since January, ...

Why are you reading about smoke detectors, may you ask? Well, for one, they can save your life — indicating the onset of a fire at home. According to the “Smoke Alarms in US Home Fires” report by the ...

GREENFIELD — Weeks after local firefighters installed two new smoke detectors inside an east side Greenfield home during their inaugural detector blitz in 2016, the house caught fire. The family of ...

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 ...

Smoke alarms save lives, but if they shriek every time you sear a steak or run a hot shower, you are more likely to silence or disable them than to trust them. The real fix is not to lower your guard, ...

People who need to install smoke detectors in their homes often can get them for free. Philadelphia provides smoke detectors for free through its 311 services. In the suburbs and South Jersey, the ...