“I do not want to send a message that smoke detectors do not work,” the firefighter, Jay Fleming, wrote to the Journal-World. “But I do believe that one type … is far superior to the most ...

They really do work," the Mentor Fire Department wrote on its Facebook page. Officials shared photos of the damage as well as a meme featuring Ron Burgundy saying "This just in! Smoke detectors ...

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The modern hacker wields a number of tools that operate on the principle of heating things up to extremely high temperatures, so a smoke alarm ... So how does it work? If the detector goes off ...

The steam and grease from kitchen work can clog smoke detector sensors so they don't work as well. These locations are bad news for smoke detectors, even if it may seem like a good idea at the time.

It’s widely known that a smoke ... detector came from plutonium: it’s a natural decay product of it, although the stuff used in the US has the plutonium removed. We’ve featured the work ...

False fire alarms can be a big problem, wasting time, money, and emergency resources. Now, a team of South Korean researchers ...

A group of South Korean researchers has developed an intelligent fire detection technology that drastically reduces false ...

They work differently in order to detect smoke. Ionization detectors use a very small amount of radioactive material inside of an ionization chamber with electrically charged plates. When smoke ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- City residents can now get free carbon monoxide detectors installed by Syracuse firefighters, in addition to the department’s free smoke detector program. “We’re really ...

This is based mainly on the detector's response to CO, smoke, and fire. The displayed score is out of a total of 100 points. This is based mainly on the detector's response to CO, smoke ...