An expert shares the best spots to put a smoke detector in your home to ensure your household is safe in the event of a fire. Installing a smoke detector is crucial to maintaining a safe home ...

Having smoke detectors with working batteries placed throughout your home is an important component of fire safety, but in order for them to be most effective, it also makes a difference where they’re ...

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 ...

Harhara also recommends choosing a detector that uses long-lasting lithium batteries. These alarms typically last for 10 ...

Smoke alarms aren't just noisy gadgets that chirp when your toast burns. They're essential, life-saving devices required by law in most homes around the country ...

In many cases, that means a smoke detector placed in a hallway just outside a bedroom door or doors. Hotz said an individual home might get one detector, two detectors or even up to six detectors. It ...

Oct. 13--Smoke detectors are easy to forget until they buzz to life, but an annoyance is a small price to pay to avoid death or injury, according to Kerrville Fire Department Chief Dannie Smith.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- In a fire, a smoke detector can give you the time you need to save your life - and the lives of those you love. The National Fire Protection Association says you should install ...

City residents who don't have smoke detectors in their bedrooms will have to get their tools out soon. An amendment to the city housing code will require residents to ...