When you move into or buy a new home, no one hands you a guide to how the smoke detectors work. They “chirp,” which really means shriek loudly, and you occasionally have to put new batteries in them.

Your easy guide for testing any type of smoke detector at home, from smart and wireless to traditional and wired. The only way to know your smoke alarm is functioning and ready (except for letting ...

About 50,000 smoke and carbon monoxide detectors have been recalled because they could fail to alert people to fires or carbon monoxide leaks. The recall was issued for Apollo America's 51000-600 ...

Battery powered smoke detectors have been an essential home safety accessory ever since they were first commercially popularized in the 1970s. But even though the blinking device is fastened to ...

Federal safety regulators have recalled or issued stop-use warnings for at least nine brands of smoke and carbon monoxide detectors sold on Amazon.com after testing revealed the devices can fail to ...

I’ve been writing about smoke detectors for a few years. That often involves researching fire statistics, so when I see something like the fact that the death rate from a fire is 60 percent lower in ...