The Batesville Fire Department recently received a grant from the Arkansas Fire Protection Service Board to purchase 250 ...

A lot of fires arise from unattended cooking," fire spokesman Kevin Cartwright said. For years, BCFD and the Red Cross have been going door-to-door handing out free smoke detectors. The joint ...

Flame detectors use optical sensors working at specific spectral ranges (usually narrowband) to record the incoming radiation at the selected wavelengths. Typically, 30–40% of the energy radiated from ...

Three out of five fire deaths happen in homes with either no smoke alarms or no working alarms, but Consumer Reports has ...

Patrick Andler is a fire investigator with 38 years of experience and a board member of the Arizona Burn Foundation. This organization supplies free smoke detectors to low-income housing units ...