While we’re certainly not denying that smoke detectors are useful, there’s a certain kind of tragedy to the fact that most of them will never realize their true purpose of detecting smoke, and ...

Making headway against a major public health threat, researchers have invented the first ever secondhand tobacco smoke sensor that records data in real time, a new study shows. Dartmouth researchers ...

Tonight a Clinton family is teaming up with firefighters around the midwest to turn an incredible tragedy into a life saving program for others. The Molitor family, two boys, a three year old and a ...

A faulty wire, a discarded burning cigarette, or a left-on curling iron can trigger sparks of fire to engulf everything nearby until all that’s left is brittle mounds of smoldering ash. Which is why ...

Dartmouth researchers have taken an important step in the ongoing battle against secondhand tobacco smoke. They have pioneered the development of a breakthrough device that can immediately detect the ...

Salt River Project is piloting a Smoke Detector Pilot Project that will act as a camera and smoke detector and provide an early-warning system for wildfires that occur near the utility’s transmission ...

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of ...

CLINTON, Iowa — As two Clinton firefighters installed new smoke detectors in her home over the weekend, Nicole Shannon couldn’t help but think of Tyler Wade. Tyler was a first-grader at Bluff ...

Shanya Gill, 12, won a national science competition for her fire-detection device. The device works quicker than the average smoke detector by using a thermal camera. Gill said she hoped to use the ...