The Danbury Fire Department rolled out a new firehouse alarm system in September to reduce firefighters’ stress when calls ...

A Connecticut city has joined hundreds of others around the country that have installed new firehouse alarm systems that aim to reduce firefighters' stress when calls come in.

Blaring fire station sirens replaced with ‘calmer’ alarms to help firefighters - The new system featuring softer alarms went ...

Firefighters in Illinois responded to 17,437 more false alarms in 2024 than they did three years earlier when the Illinois State Fire Marshal first began tracking those figures. But while some of ...

Curt Isakson explains why a supervising officer, an incident operations officer and, sometimes, a safety officer and a water supply officer are needed for the complexity that ...

A study found that alert systems using an immediately loud sound increased firefighter heart rates by a median of seven beats a minute, compared with five beats a minute under a system that phased in ...

EaseAlert low-volume system that will notify firefighters instead of traditional loud alarms According to EaseAlert, it is the first and only firefighter alert system in the world that notifies the ...

Smoke alarms are supposed to be in every bedroom, outside each sleeping area and on each level of every home. But in many homes, they’re sitting on a table with the battery ripped out after being ...

WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - There is a creative way to alert people who are deaf of fires, they’re called Bed Shaker alarms. “The alarm, when a smoke detector goes off it’ll, it will alert, and the system ...