Always assume a sounding smoke alarm means there’s a fire and you should get to safety as quickly as possible. But what do you do when it’s a false alarm that doesn’t stop? A scenario like that can be ...

As for hardwired smoke alarms, "they’re interconnected through the electrical wires, so if one smoke alarm sounds, they’ll all sound and it can be difficult to figure out what’s going on," Deitrick ...

We’ve all been there. It’s 2 a.m. and you hear an eardrum-piercing beep. Your first reaction is to cover your head with a pillow and pretend it never happened. Eventually the slow chirping takes ...