He is in charge of developing and carrying out testing procedures for a wide variety of home appliances and smart devices including robot vacuums, smoke/CO detectors and air conditioning units.

Don't ignore that smoke detector on the wall. Here are the best places to install one for improved fire safety.

By cleverly patching into the test button on an old smoke detector he created a circuit-trip alarm. One side of each piece of wire is secured to the frame and jam of a window. A paper clip ...

Fire Prevention Week is here. The Mound firefighters and I, along with thousands of firefighters across North America, are visiting schools and other sites in the community teaching the basics of ...

The boy has serious burns but Samson believes he could’ve escaped injury with a warning sound so the Sharon Fire Department ...

The author has long advised readers to return old smoke alarms to manufacturers. Then he tried doing it himself.

A smoke sensor developed by La Trobe University academics that has the potential to save hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

With the devastating news out of St. Paul about a home fire where four children age five and under died, one child is awake, and one child and the mother remain unconscious, it makes you examine ...

Push the button and bear the piercing sound at least twice per year, advise experts who stress the importance of testing ...

CR's testers say these models from First Alert and Kidde are great at protecting you and your loved ones from harmCR's ...

Although these are useful, I wish it used a voice-alarm to explain the alerts. The First Alert PRC710 performed well during my testing on all three days and consistently activated its smoke alarm ...

This is based mainly on the detector's response to CO, smoke, and fire. The displayed score is out of a total of 100 points. This is based mainly on the detector's response to CO, smoke ...