The Red Cross has responded to more than 500 fires in Pennsylvania this year. The Harrisburg area has had two fatal fires in a week.

The design of the average smoke alarm has stayed largely the same for many years, but with the advent of smart home tech, new ...

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Two separate fire calls in London shared a common problem: missing alarms. Fire officials say the incidents show how seconds ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania recorded more home fire deaths in 2025 than any other state in the nation, according to the American Red Cross.

The city wants to help homeowners stay safe, offering to install free smoke and carbon monoxide detectors for those eligible.

So far in 2026, there have been 23 fire deaths in Mississippi. There were no working smoke alarms in at least 17 of those cases. Compare that to the 75 ...

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

A home fire is reported somewhere in the U.S. every 96 seconds. Monroe Fire Department PIO Antonio Smith says one small device could be the difference between escape and tragedy — but only if it works ...

A statewide program is helping protect Michigan families from deadly house fires by providing and installing free smoke ...

“Smoke detectors can save a place.” That’s what the chief at the Belton Fire Department told KWTX after the smoke alarm alerted his department to a fire at Miller’s Smokehouse in downtown Belton over ...