Whisky firms could face harsh penalties for causing false fire alarms which are costing Moray crews thousands of pounds every year. Local fire service bosses presented Moray Council with performance figures collected between April and September yesterday. The dossier detailed a surge in false alarms across the Speyside Glenlivet area, far in excess of other parts o...

Over View 803A intelligent smoke alarm can transmit real-time fire alarm and real-time image to mobile phone via WIFI network. No false and missing alarms, anytime, anywhere, make your  family security under control. Features 1. Sound & Light Alarm The alarms would indicated by sound & light as other common smoke detectors. 2. Remote Mobil...

Last year, we put out a podcast called “Death By Fire? Probably Not.” It was about the remarkable decline in fatal fires in the U.S. over the past century, and explored some of the contributing factors. Joseph M. Fleming, a deputy fire chief with the Boston Fire Department, has now written in with a guest post that challenges what we think we know about smoke alarms. Fl...

Smoke alarms Every year we attend more than 3,500 house fires. In 80% of the fatal fires we attend smoke alarms are either not installed or not working. Many fire fatalities happen at night when people are sleeping and don’t smell the smoke. Working smoke alarms are the best way to make sure you and your family get an early warning of a fire so you can get out alive. ...

Who invented smoke detectors? Good question! Search online and you´ll quickly find out that fire alarms were invented by US physicist and mathematician Francis Robbins Upton in 1890, while the first smoke detector was invented by George Andrew Darby in England in 1902. A more detailed search will tell you both of these "facts" are wrong. According to t...