SEATTLE - A team of crooks is pulling fire alarms to empty out apartment buildings, according to police, and then go door-to-door looking for valuables. Fire alarms are meant to save lives, but they ...

In a proactive move to enhance fire safety in the community, Milwaukee firefighters conducted door-to-door checks Wednesday for working smoke alarms. The move comes after an incident Tuesday night, ...

Witnesses say fire alarms were silent and many doors were locked when a blaze at a Russian shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school recess killed 64 ...

Q: Can I install a door holder on an interior stairway exit door in a restaurant? If so, do I install smoke detectors on either side of the door? A: For this purpose the International Building Code ...

KUSA — An Arvada home for adults with disabilities where three people died in a 2016 fire was a firefighter’s nightmare of blocked exits, missing smoke alarms and barred windows, a 9Wants to Know ...

FIRE CREWS HAVE BEEN ON SCENE ALL DAY, METICULOUSLY GOING INCH BY INCH THROUGH THE DEBRIS YOU SEE BEHIND ME HERE. THEY HAVE NOW CONFIRMED TWO PEOPLE FOUND DEAD IN THIS WRECKAGE. NOW THEY WERE GOING ...

Before Rep. Jamaal Bowman “accidentally” activated a fire alarm and forced the evacuation of a House office building last month, the far-left lawmaker hastily removed two emergency exit signs from ...

EXTENSIVE. ABSOLUTELY. KHIREE. AND SPECIFICALLY THE GODDESS. AND THEN LUMBER, LIQUORS, YOU KNOW, THEY TELL ME THAT THEY HAVE BEEN SITTING IN THIS SPOT ON EUTAW STREET AND LOMBARD FOR DECADES NOW. AND ...

Sprinklers help stop fires, but most houses aren't equipped with them. Turns out another way to help fires from spreading inside a home is decidedly low tech: Shut interior doors to keep the fire from ...