No one tells you what those different beeps or on-off lights on your smoke detector mean. Here's what you need to know.

Battery powered smoke detectors have been an essential home safety accessory ever since they were first commercially popularized in the 1970s. But even though the blinking device is fastened to ...

The sound and frequency of a smoke detector's beeping helps indicate what the problem is, from a false alarm to needing a new ...

The Kidde Ring measures 1.8 by 5 by 5 inches (HWD) and weighs 1.3 pounds. It’s a hardwired device that contains black (hot) and white (neutral) wires, as well as a red wire used to interconnect ...

About 328,000 smoke alarms sold nationwide and online by the Home Shopping Network — or as it now calls itself, HSN — are being recalled because the products can malfunction and fail to alert users of ...

October and December, they said, and that 60% of those fires break out overnight — when a blaring smoke alarm could save ...