Initial indications suggested the fire may have started from an overloaded extension cord under the couch, though investigators were still examining evidence. Two Petaluma residents escaped their ...

Officials credited a fire sprinkler and ... home fire protection systems because the outcome could have been “much different” without the fire sprinkler and smoke detector.

Officials said the 29 lives lost, many children, serve as a stark reminder of the importance of working smoke detectors and sprinkler systems. The Vice President of the National Fire Protection ...

Crews sounded a second alarm in response to the heavy smoke that stemmed to the fire likely ignited in the basement elevator room, the report said. The building's sprinkler system extinguished ...

We keep smoke detectors on our fire trucks to install in homes that do not have one. You would think that, in 2009, every home would have one, wouldn't you? Sprinkler systems, on the other hand ...

(KTVZ) – A sprinkler system stopped a kitchen fire in its tracks at a northeast Bend apartment Saturday evening, but the resulting water and smoke damage ... sprinkler and alarm systems were ...