Business fires cause hundreds of millions of dollars in damages every year, making this one of the most important safety issues for business owners and office or facility managers to address.

You may hear it if you own a scanner. Whenever there's a fire, firefighters call for a first alarm, then maybe a second... or even more. But what does it mean? What does each alarm indicate? Basically ...

A cooking fire broke out this afternoon on the third floor of the Boxcar Apartments, according to Justin De Ruyter with the ...

GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. (WWLP) – Crews were called to a fire alarm activation at the VFW in Great Barrington on Sunday night. In a news release from the Great Barrington Fire Department, at around ...

Nicely Elementary School in Greensburg has been operating without a functional fire alarm system for nearly a month following a power surge, which rendered the alarm panel inoperable. The school, ...

I've worked in a couple rooms at my university where the server room AC units did not circulate air with the rest of the building so they were allowed to stay on during a fire alarm. This was great as ...

Viscount Systems announced today that the company has released the Emergency Notification Module for its flagship MESH security system Viscount Systems announced today that the company has released ...

Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on fire alarms in Pittsfield. Back in the 1950s and '60s, you could find fire alarm boxes in Pittsfield on telephone poles or on walls of ...

When the Massachusetts 911 system for emergency calls stopped working on Tuesday afternoon, Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox noted the city already had a backup solution in place. Use those ...

It was 8:25 p.m. on April 29, 1852. On a Thursday night, concerned citizen J.H. Goodale noticed a small fire coming from a house on the corner of what is now North Washington Street. Rather than yell ...