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There’s never a bad time to invest in home fire safety, and the best place to start is checking your home’s smoke alarms to ensure they’re working properly. These invaluable devices protect you and ...

The best smoke detectors are loud and reliable, alerting you to a fire in an emergency. During testing, X-Sense and First Alert were top performers.

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 ...

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 ...

The idea of detecting smoke as a sign of fire has deep roots. The first known device to detect fire was created by Francis Robbins Upton in 1890, but it was far from the smoke detectors we know today.