FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With their proven ability to double your family’s chance of surviving a residential fire, smoke detectors are one of the most valuable fire safety tools on the ...
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How to tell if your smoke detector is past its real lifespan even if it still beeps
Your smoke alarm’s chirp can be oddly reassuring, a small sound that suggests everything is still working. Yet the device ...
Optical-based smoke alarms use light instead. They are slightly better at detecting the large smoke particles created by slow ...
The The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is accepting applications for grants to encourage behaviors that will improve ...
(Mass Appeal) – Don’t forget that this Saturday, before you go to bed, move your clock an hour ahead. And there’s one more, very important, potentially life saving, thing you should also be doing this ...
Communities nationwide witness tragic home-fire deaths each year. Approximately 1,000 children under the age of 20 die annually in house fires, an average of nearly three children a day. This number ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — This Sunday, when residents of New York “spring forward’’ to welcome Daylight Saving Time by moving their clocks one hour ahead, safety authorities encourage us to change the ...
NORFOLK, Va. — This past week a fire in Portsmouth took the lives of a mother and two of her young children. The fire broke out in a rented duplex on Neville Street. Investigators confirmed it was ...
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Smoke alarm placement rules that reduce false alarms without leaving you unprotected
Smoke alarms save lives, but if they shriek every time you sear a steak or run a hot shower, you are more likely to silence or disable them than to trust them. The real fix is not to lower your guard, ...
Smoke alarms are supposed to be in every bedroom, outside each sleeping area and on each level of every home. But in many homes, they’re sitting on a table with the battery ripped out after being ...
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 ...
The Arlington, Virginia fire department has a few tips for keeping those smoke alarms in good working order: Test smoke alarms once a month by pushing the "test button. Install new batteries at least ...
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