A smoke alarm sitting quietly on a ceiling may look harmless, but behind that plastic cover lies a ticking time bomb of risk if it’s expired or malfunctioning. Every year, thousands of home fires ...

Your smoke alarm’s chirp can be oddly reassuring, a small sound that suggests everything is still working. Yet the device making that noise may already be too old to reliably sense a real fire. The ...

Illinois officials urge residents to test and replace smoke and carbon monoxide alarms as daylight saving time begins.

Illinois State Fire Marshal urges testing and replacing smoke/CO alarms with 10-year sealed batteries during Daylight Saving ...