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The reason for the concentration of alarms in or near sleeping areas is obvious: Fires may have a chance to spread before a ...

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The Springfield Fire Department is offering free smoke alarm installations to residents as part of a statewide initiative to ...

Red Cross of Southern Nevada and Las Vegas Fire & Rescue will install smoke alarms in 300 valley homes.

The Milwaukee Fire Department is going door-to-door installing free smoke detectors for Fire Prevention Week. Firefighters and volunteers aim to equip every home in targeted areas with working alarms.

The Rockford Fire Department is installing free smoke alarms as part of Illinois’ statewide fire safety blitz.

The New York City Fire Department is relaunching the Get Alarmed NYC program. Missing this one pay date may be too much for Trump, Congress to prolong the government shutdown ...

Over a five-year period beginning in 2015 and 2019, fire departments across the United States responded to roughly 347,000 home structure fires per year. That data, courtesy of the National Fire ...

These tiny home security gadgets stay out of the way while offering major safety benefits at affordable costs.

October is Fire Prevention Month, and volunteers with the Rotary Club, the American Red Cross and Thornton Fire Department spent their day on Saturday making sure residents were ready. "Fire and smoke ...