Protect Your Home—and Your Life—With These Top-Rated Smoke Alarms

The devices are essential, and it’s well worth considering the newest models.

Father, son, dog killed in overnight fire in Hempstead in building without working smoke detectors

A father and son died in an overnight fire on Long Island. Kenneth Roberts, 42, and his son Mekhi, 12, were trapped in intense smoke inside a basement apartment.

When you spring forward, test your smoke detectors

The American Red Cross is urging residents to test their smoke alarms this weekend as they set their clocks forward for daylight saving time on March 8.
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Spoofing An Emergency Traffic Preemption Signal

There’s a well-known movie trope in which a hacker takes control of the traffic lights in a city, causing general mayhem or ...
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Residents reminded to change smoke detector batteries as clocks ‘spring forward’ after structure fires in Libertyville, Antioch

Fire officials are reminding residents to use the start of daylight saving time to check and replace the batteries in their smoke detectors after a house fire in Libertyville and an apartment fire in ...