Your home's smoke detector doesn't just sound off to say there's trouble. There are lights, too, which carry their own meanings, if you know how to read them.

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There’s never a bad time to invest in home fire safety, and the best place to start is checking your home’s smoke alarms to ensure they’re working properly. These invaluable devices protect you and ...

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Battery powered smoke detectors have been an essential home safety accessory ever since they were first commercially popularized in the 1970s. But even though the blinking device is fastened to ...

An ear-splitting smoke alarm siren is one of the worst midnight surprises. But it’s even worse when your detector keeps beeping in the middle of the night but then stops and acts perfectly normal ...

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Many local fire departments have been left scrambling to find funding ahead of the next fiscal year amid cuts to a state program that gives out smoke detectors.

SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Firefighters will be knocking on doors in the Kingfisher Avenue area of Sevierville next month, ...

After a family died in a house fire this spring, the city is ramping up promotion of a 12-year-old program that provides and ...