Smart home sensors and cameras can also tackle tiny threats, providing info and options for handling bugs all on your own.

Humans spend about 80% of their time indoors, but keeping track of the air we breathe usually requires expensive lab-grade equipment. Researchers at Concordia and Qatar University have created a ...

The reason for the concentration of alarms in or near sleeping areas is obvious: Fires may have a chance to spread before a sleeping resident is aware of them. According to the Fire Administration, ...

GALWAY, Ireland, Sept. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT), a global leader in healthcare technology, today announced two U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory milestones ...

Thousand Oaks, Calif.-based HCA Healthcare’s Los Robles Health System has created a tool that acts as a “smoke detector for sepsis,” according to an Aug. 26 news release shared with Becker’s. The ...

Cicero, N.Y. — A man who died in a Cicero house fire last week has been identified, deputies said. The man who died was Raymond J. Brand, 68, according to Onondaga County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson ...

The owners of old Hong Kong buildings applying for fire safety subsidies should install smoke detectors as a temporary measure, observers have said, following a deadly blaze at a site with suspected ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — Smoke may be seen rising from vents in Gatlinburg this week as the city begins work to find any areas in need of repair in the sewer system. Starting on August 13, ...

Maryland investigators are still looking into the cause of an intense, fast-moving fire at a home in Waldorf, in Charles County, that killed six people, including four children. Master Deputy State ...

A couple of years ago, a curious, then-16-year-old hacker named Reynaldo Vasquez-Garcia was on his laptop at his Portland-area high school, seeing what computer systems he could connect to via the ...

Firefighters will tell you that smoke alarms “absolutely” save lives in emergency situations. Midland residents can help make their families safer by taking advantage of a program that provides free ...

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