Your smoke alarm’s chirp can be oddly reassuring, a small sound that suggests everything is still working. Yet the device making that noise may already be too old to reliably sense a real fire. The ...

Smoke detectors were not functioning during a firework-related house fire on July Fourth near Buckner that killed two people and critically injured one, officials say, highlighting a danger officials ...

WALKER, Mich. (WOOD) — As you work to change all of your clocks back, safety officials are reminding you to check another fixture in your house: smoke and carbon monoxide detectors. Fire departments ...