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Type Of Smoke Alarm Can Make Life-Death Difference

BOSTON (CBS) – More than 3,000 people die in fires across the country each year. In Massachusetts, the number of deaths compared to last year is already on the rise. Smoke alarms have been effective in...

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Boston City Leaders Push For Change In Smoke Detector Law

BOSTON (CBS) – Think you’re safe with a working smoke detector in your home? Maybe not. Local lawmakers are acting on an I-Team story you saw first on WBZ-TV. The type of smoke alarm you have will...

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Boston One Step Closer To Photo-Electric Alarms In Homes

BOSTON (CBS) – What the city of Boston wants to require regarding smoke detectors might be different from what many residents have in their homes. The change that could be coming is designed to save...

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Medical Minute: The Importance Of Smoke Alarms In Your Home

BOSTON (CBS) – WBZ’s Dr. Murray Feingold talks about the importance of having smoke detectors in your home, especially if you have children....

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Smoke Detectors Credited With Saving Lives In Mattapan

BOSTON (CBS) — The Boston Fire Department is crediting working smoke detectors with getting more than two dozen people out of their apartment buildings in Mattapan Friday morning when a three-alarm...

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Spring Ahead, Change Your Batteries: Daylight Saving Time Starts Sunday

BOSTON (CBS/AP) – Daylight Saving Time begins Sunday morning, And as you “spring forward” an hour, state emergency officials suggest you use the occasion as a reminder to change the batteries in smoke...

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Officials: Fatal Salem Fire Was Accidental

SALEM (AP) — The state fire marshal and Salem fire chief say a weekend house fire that killed a Salem man was an accident. Fire Marshal Stephen Coan said in a statement Tuesday that investigators found...

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8 Escape House Fire In Nashua, NH

NASHUA, NH (CBS) – Eight people managed to escape an overnight fire in Nashua, New Hampshire, despite the home not having working smoke detectors. Officials say the fire broke out around 3 a.m. inside...

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Deadly Fires Prompt Smoke & CO Alarm Warnings

CONCORD, N.H. (CBS/AP) — New Hampshire State Fire Marshal William Degnan says this is the deadliest time of the year for home fires and carbon monoxide poisonings. There’s already been five fire...

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Family Member: Lowell Victims Had Large Number Of Fireworks In Apartment

LOWELL (CBS/AP) – As Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan is pledging to conduct what she expects to be a “long and thorough review” into a fire in Lowell that claimed seven lives, a relative of...

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Investigators Return To Site Of Deadly Lowell Fire

LOWELL (CBS) – Fire investigators have returned to the scene of a fire in Lowell that claimed the lives of seven people, and will begin looking for a cause. Initial questions are focused on the smoke...

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Smoke Detectors Alert Residents To Auburn House Fire

AUBURN (CBS) – Firefighters say smoke detectors at an Auburn home likely saved lives as they helped a family escape in time when flames broke out. The fire broke out at 3:15 a.m. on Saturday on...

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Smoke Detector Recall: Alarms May Have Faulty Switch

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (CBS) — Check your smoke detectors – Universal Security Instruments is recalling 180,000 of them over a faulty switch. “The smoke alarms can have a misaligned internal switch causing...

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