It is a familiar story on campus: the ringing bells, the loud alarm and the evacuation process — all to find someone burned their popcorn in the microwave. A typical false fire alarm causes disruption ...

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 ...

Firefighting agencies are encouraging the public to make sure they have smoke alarms installed in their homes after two ...

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 ...