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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 ...

I’ve been writing about smoke detectors for a few years. That often involves researching fire statistics, so when I see something like the fact that the death rate from a fire is 60 percent lower in ...

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.

Smoke detectors are a lot like income taxes: they need to be dealt with once a year, not a whole lot of people understand them, and issues with either can be particu ...

Smoke alarms are among the simplest safety devices in a home. They are affordable, easy to overlook, and usually silent. That silence can create a false sense of security. Many homeowners assume that ...

The director of the NJ Division of Fire Safety says 7,500 free smoke detectors are being handed out to any resident who may ...