He is in charge of developing and carrying out testing procedures for a wide variety of home appliances and smart devices including robot vacuums, smoke/CO detectors and air conditioning units.

Prior to the mid-1980s, batteries powered our smoke detectors. This made individual smoke detectors easy to install. The downside is changing the batteries on a ...

As we reported in our guide to smoke alarms, the typical time to escape from a house fire has fallen from 17 minutes in the 1970s to about three minutes today. Every minute matters, and the latest ...

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Fire safety for short term rentals is a key point of concern, but the town council is still debating how to regulate them.

Caldwell Firefighters responded to a house fire on Airport Road today after a stove was left on with a pot, leading to a ...