A former captain at the West Columbia Fire Department is sounding the alarm about the department’s broken down fire trucks.

The American Red Cross announced their volunteers were providing crucial assistance to a family whose home on Hottinger Avenue in North Charleston was damaged b ...

American Red Cross volunteers are assisting a family whose home, located on Wagener Road, was damaged by a fire on Thursday afternoon.

One of those sounds in is the evacuation fire alarm (not Taronga’s Code One alarm). Echo can also mimic a power drill and a crying baby, which went viral last year. Although it has been ...

Millie LaFontaine lives in Concord. The daily barrage that has become the news cycle these days is hard to keep up with, much ...

Fire Prevention Week is here. The Mound firefighters and I, along with thousands of firefighters across North America, are visiting schools and other sites in the community teaching the basics of ...

With a power drill and pencil ... In the event of a house fire, hallway smoke detectors may sound their alarms much earlier than units in the bedroom. Installing your smoke alarm near the kitchen ...

Despite upgrades to wireless alerts system, emergency warnings were often ineffective when most needed during the Los Angeles wildfires. Some were sent to too many people, some to too few.

Following a 4.0 magnitude earthquake in Delhi, here's what NCR residents must know about earthquake-resistant structures and ...

The American Airlines plane operating as American Eagle Flight 5342 collided with an Army Black Hawk helicopter near Reagan National Airport.

Familiarity with fire drill procedures should be a prominent aspect of a teacher ... time of activation, and if all the alarms sound successfully. For larger systems it may take considerable time for ...