As many as seven trucks manned by volunteers hit the streets every time Greensburg Fire Department gets a call for an automatic fire alarm. They race to an address, not knowing what they’re going to ...

TOKYO -- Despite the subsiding tailwind of Abenomics, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's eponymous economic policy, some Japanese companies are faring well with unique business models. Among them is ...

Having a fire alarm in your garage is important, especially if your home has an attached garage or a garage near rooms where people sleep. Fires can spread quickly, and by the time a garage fire ...

G reensburg firefighters say they're tired of racing to calls that turn out to be nothing. They say nearly one in five alarms they respond to is false, and now the city's ready to crack down on ...

The problems with the fire alarms don't affect how they function when a fire is detected, but they affect who is notified when they need maintenance. The Wake County school board will spend an extra ...

A museum store room may have been lost to a fire had its alarm not been working, a fire service said. Suffolk Fire and Rescue was called to an automatic fire alarm within a building belonging to ...

A new fire station in Germany that was destroyed in a fire, causing millions of euros in damage, did not have a fire alarm system. The fire broke out early Wednesday morning at the Stadtallendorf fire ...