Three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no smoke alarms or no working alarms, but Consumer Reports has ...

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The Buffalo Grove Fire Department (BGFD) installed 539 smoke detectors in senior housing units from Oct. 22-24, marking the ...

Over the last 10 years, an average of 20 people died in Illinois annually from accidental carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. The ...

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Firefighters found six disabled smoke alarms that had been removed from their bases, contained dead batteries, or had no batteries at all, officials said Thursday.