What are the most important types of fire safety equipment for homes? Smoke Alarms: Your First Line of Defense A smoke alarm detects fire at its earliest stage, so it is a critical component of any ...

While Iowa, Wisconsin, and southeastern Minnesota saw snow and ice yesterday and overnight, we missed out on that first snowstorm of the season by just a few hundred miles.  I am sure there will ...

This is National Burn Awareness Week, through Saturday, Feb. 8. According to the Office of the Maryland State Fire Marshal, almost one-third of all burn injuries occur in children younger ...

A sophisticated approach to fire and explosion safety requires one that expands conventional protection strategies to comprehensively consider storage, containment and tool compatibility ...

As the cleanup phase of recovery begins after the devastating fires in L.A. County, displaced residents grapple with new ...

While evacuation orders remained in place for areas around the immediate perimeter of the fire, other nearby neighborhoods were reduced from evacuation orders to warnings, while warnings were ...

The fire was being fanned by strong, dry Santa Ana winds that were racing through the area, pushing a vast pall of smoke and dangerous embers ahead of the flames -- sparking fears that it could ...

The latest blaze - dubbed the Hughes Fire - started late on Wednesday morning near Lake Castaic, around 40 miles from the Eaton and Palisades wildfires that devastated parts of LA earlier this month.

This shifts the responsibility to shoppers who purchase items with fire warning labels, but may not fully understand the implications of the warning. Highly flammable fabrics are far more common ...

LATEST Jan. 23, 8:45 a.m. The Hughes Fire near Castaic Lake in northern Los Angeles County continued to burn Thursday morning, but locals and first responders had some reason for optimism despite ...

Entire families wiped out, last words of victims revealed after the fire in northwestern Turkey killed 76 Musa Serdar Terzioglu/Anadolu via Getty Twenty children were among the 76 fatal victims of ...