The SAFE Home Program aims to make sure every household in Oldham County has working smoke alarms and understands how to respond during a fire. The program will install up to three smoke alarms at no ...

Officials with the American Red Cross of Southwest Georgia, Columbus Fire & EMS, and volunteers plan to install nearly 80 free smoke alarms in local homes on Saturday.

There is a troubling spike in Pennsylvania home fires, and more people are dying in the state than anywhere else in the country. The Red Cross says working smoke alarms ...

North Carolina is fighting to control the fast-growing, highly flammable kudzu vine that’s destroying ecosystems.

A study found that alert systems using an immediately loud sound increased firefighter heart rates by a median of seven beats a minute, compared with five beats a minute under a system that phased in ...

The department is taking a gentler approach to alerting firefighters of incoming calls, with alarms that start softly and a calm recorded voice.

With an uptick in home fires recently, the American Red Cross urges homeowners to make sure they have working fire alarms.

More than 10,000 smoke detectors are being recalled because they may not sound in time during a fire, federal officials said. The recall affects about 11,000 LSHOME 3-Pack Smoke Detector Fire Alarms, ...

Thousands of smoke detector fire alarms sold exclusively on Amazon are being recalled over a sound issue that could pose a fire hazard. The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) said in a notice ...

OUR PETER ELIOPOULOS EXPLAINS. A BUNCH OF BLACK SMOKE WAS COMING OUT AND THEN A BUNCH OF WIND CAME IN AND THE FIRE STARTED GOING THROUGH THE ROOF. PABLO GOMEZ AND HIS FAMILY WATCH AS THE HOUSE ACROSS ...

THE SCENE WHERE CREWS ARE STILL ACTIVE. CAITLIN JESSICA. GOOD AFTERNOON. WE’RE HERE AT THE COVE HOTEL IN SALEM. CREWS CONTINUE TO PUT OUT THIS FIRE THAT STARTED IN ONE HOTEL ROOM AND THEN SPREAD TO ...