A person died in a house fire in Easton Thursday night, fire department officials announced. The Easton Fire Department ...

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 ...

The Greensburg City Council approved an ordinance that would hold property owners accountable for faulty fire alarms. Meaning alarms that go off as a result of a mechanical issue, not due to flames or ...

Residents of an apartment block say they are "on edge all of the time" due to faulty alarms going off day and night. Heat ...

More than Just Books: Looking ahead to Literacy Day at the Syracuse Crunch Literacy Day at the Syracuse Crunch is taking place on Monday, January 19th at 1:00 p.m. at the Upstate Medical University ...

Charleroi council took the first steps toward increasing fines for false fire alarms. At Wednesday’s meeting, council voted unanimously to advertise for the adoption of an ordinance that would ...

Greensburg firefighters say they're tired of racing to calls that turn out to be nothing. They say nearly one in five alarms they respond to is false, and now the city's ready to crack down on ...

The Golden State Warriors' 115-110 win over the Detroit Pistons on Saturday night was temporarily delayed after a false fire alarm at Chase Center. Once the situation was cleared, fans were allowed to ...

Oneonta’s fire chief reported a sharp rise in false fire alarms to the city’s Legislative Committee Tuesday, Feb. 25 and continued to urge members to consider raising the nuisance alarm fee to curb ...

The Evanston Fire Department responded to over 200 fire alarms at Northwestern last year, said Deputy Chief of Operations William Muno. Out of those hundreds of alarms, Muno said that he does not ...