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...
View ArticleBoston 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...
View ArticleBoston 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...
View ArticleMedical 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....
View ArticleSmoke 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...
View ArticleSpring 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...
View ArticleOfficials: 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...
View Article8 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...
View ArticleDeadly 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...
View ArticleFamily 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...
View ArticleInvestigators 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...
View ArticleSmoke 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...
View ArticleSmoke 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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