TUMALO, Ore. (KTVZ) – A family of eight and their dog and cat escaped a fire that destroyed their Tumalo home late Monday night, thanks to smoke alarms that awakened them, officials said. Losses are ...

Smoke alarms save lives, but many homes don’t have them or even ones that work properly. Jayce Eustice spoke with Our Quad Cities News about the American Red Cross’s Sound the Alarm program to help ...

Optical-based smoke alarms use light instead. They are slightly better at detecting the large smoke particles created by slow ...

Through its "Sound the Alarm Program," the American Red Cross is saving thousands of lives by installing fire alarms.

Between letting the whole house know when you overcook something, needing to replace the batteries at least yearly and — if you take too long to do that — the constant chirping, many people see, or ...