That random chirp at 2:13 a.m. is enough to make a grown man question his life choices. You changed the battery. You pressed the test button. You even stood on a chair in your socks, squinting at the ...

Daylight Savings Time is usually when Michigan's Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs (LARA) suggests you change the batteries in your smoke alarms and carbon monoxide detectors. However, ...

If a system had 100 detectors, and each detector caused (on average) 10 smoke dampers to close, five doors to close, and two HVAC units to shutdown, then physical observation of each device (damper, ...

The first time most people hear the quiet chirp of a smoke detector in the dead of winter, it feels like a minor nuisance. It ...