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The United States does not have a federally mandated set of rules for the fire alarm industry; instead, we have a patchwork of rules that vary across all 50 states and more than 80,000 jurisdictions.

The association that represents firefighters in the Halifax area is sounding the alarm about a lack of in-service fire equipment after a busy south-end station was recently left without an engine ...

Nuisance False Alarm Call: The activation of a fire alarm system through a mechanical failure, equipment malfunction or improper maintenance or installation of the system, but does not include the ...

58 per cent of fire-related false alarms were due to fire alarm or firefighting equipment errors, 39 per cent were made in good faith, and three per cent were maliciously activated.A Home Office ...

A fire of unknown origin spread quickly through a warehouse on U.S. Army Garrison Daegu’s Busan Storage Center during the ...

BERLIN — A brand-new fire station in Germany was destroyed in a fire that caused millions of dollars in damage and destroyed equipment. It did not have a fire alarm system, local media reported ...

ZeroEyes ended its collaboration with the organization after several months of membership.

When fire crews arrived, they saw flames coming from the building. It was then escalated to a 2nd alarm around 7:40 a.m. and then a 3rd alarm just after 8:15 a.m. Chopper 6 flew near the scene ...

58 per cent of fire-related false alarms were due to fire alarm or fire-fighting equipment errors, 39 per cent were made in good faith, and three per cent were maliciously activated. In total ...

The blaze destroyed nearly a dozen emergency vehicles and caused between $21.5 million and $25.9 million in damage. No one was injured. The stations, which opened a year ago, didn’t have a fire alarm ...

Some residents may have been awoken and made aware of the fire at about 5:15 when the fire alarm was pulled. Noah Ertl, a West Bend resident, reported the fire to authorities and let the residents ...