If your smoke alarm keeps waking you up for no reason, here's what's going on -- and the maintenance that can stop it.

A chirping smoke alarm often indicates a low battery. When it happens at night, it could be an environmental issue affecting ...

However, as smoke alarm companies discovered, temperature plays a big role in how batteries perform. Hotter temps create less ...

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 ...

No one tells you what those different beeps or on-off lights on your smoke detector mean. Here's what you need to know.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It’s happened to all of us: That annoying low-battery chirp that seems to go off only in the middle of the night, or the smoky dinner dish that trips the sensors. We’re talking ...

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 ...