When you move into or buy a new home, no one hands you a guide to how the smoke detectors work. They "chirp," which really means shriek loudly, and you occasionally have to put new batteries in them.

The property manager says people remove their smoke detectors to smoke, which sets off all the alarms.

When the temperature drops, a lot of homes suddenly sound like they are hosting a flock of electronic birds. Those short, sharp chirps from your smoke alarms are not random, and they tend to cluster ...

Your smoke detector’s beeping is supposed to protect you, not confuse you. Yet there are moments when a chirping alarm is a warning that the device itself is no longer trustworthy, even if it still ...

This is Fire Prevention Week, which is a good time to resurface a sobering statistic: Three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms. Many house ...

Local firefighting officials are asking consumers to take notice of a national voluntary recall of a popular brand of smoke alarms. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no smoke alarms or no working smoke alarms, but experts stress these deaths are preventable with a high-quality alarm ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Jacksonville firefighters are sounding the alarm — literally — about a serious and potentially deadly problem: many homes in our area don’t have working smoke alarms. Several ...