Oct. 31 -- Most fatal home fires happen at night, while we are sleeping, so installing a smoke alarm makes many families sleep easier. But should they? Since the single-station, battery-powered smoke ...

A recent study found that 80 percent of children sleep through smoke alarms. — -- While smoke detectors are credited with saving thousands of lives each year, some researchers suggest that you ...

FOND DU LAC, Wis. (WBAY) - Quick thinking and springing into action. Two teenage girls in Fond du Lac escaped a house fire early Monday morning using a fire-escape ladder their family recently ...

I found two recent television reports from out of the area that had some disturbing news about smoke detectors. In both cases, the news stations set off the detectors in the middle of the night as a ...