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 ...

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

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.