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

We’ve all been there. It’s 2 a.m. and you hear an eardrum-piercing beep. Your first reaction is to cover your head with a pillow and pretend it never happened. Eventually the slow chirping takes ...

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

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