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 ...

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That random chirp at 2:13 a.m. is enough to make a grown man question his life choices. You changed the battery. You pressed ...

Did you know that nearly two-thirds of home fire deaths happen in homes without working smoke alarms? Not homes without alarms. Homes with alarms that don't work. And most of the time, it's ...