It is a familiar story on campus: the ringing bells, the loud alarm and the evacuation process — all to find someone burned their popcorn in the microwave. A typical false fire alarm causes disruption ...

Having a fire alarm in your garage is important, especially if your home has an attached garage or a garage near rooms where people sleep. Fires can spread quickly, and by the time a garage fire ...

Firefighters in Illinois responded to 17,437 more false alarms in 2024 than they did three years earlier when the Illinois State Fire Marshal first began tracking those figures. But while some of ...

When smoke detectors started errantly beeping at Wahconah Heights, tenants called to get the issue fixed. It took nearly a ...

It was February of my sophomore year when I woke up to a blaring noise. The Harleston Hall fire alarms were going off at 2 a.m. My roommate and I sluggishly put on our coats and begrudgingly left our ...