Springfield families with deaf or hard of hearing children are receiving new bed shaker smoke alarms through a statewide fire safety partnership.
Most parents assume that if a smoke alarm is chirping away in the hallway, their sleeping children are protected. The uncomfortable truth is that a common placement choice, keeping detectors outside ...
Every year, countless lives are lost in home fires because there were no operating smoke detectors in the home. A report published by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) in 2024 reported ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A few loud beeps could save your family's and your life. Sunday began National Fire Prevention Week and this year's focus is "Smoke Alarms: Make them work for you." There are a ...
(Reuters Health) - A smoke alarm that broadcasts a mother's voice would wake children much more quickly than alarms that blast high-pitched tones, a new U.S. study finds. Sleeping children, as it ...
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FAMILY EVEN EASIER. SIMON GUNSTOCK AND HIS FAMILY WERE LUCKY TO MAKE IT OUT OF THEIR HOME AFTER A DRYER CAUGHT FIRE. SMOKE IS LIKE WHITE SMOKE BILLOWING OUT OF THE DRYER AREA. IT JUST WENT SO FAST. IT ...
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.