We recommend that you use a combination of detectors in your home for complete protection. Fires burn differently; some flare, some smolder. The kind of sensor that a smoke detector uses ...

"Any home that has a smoke alarm that is not hardwired, it's using a 9-volt battery, not hardwired. When their current smoke alarms expire, they need to begin replacing them with 10-year sealed ...

CR's testers say these models from First Alert and Kidde are great at protecting you and your loved ones from harm CR's engineers use high flames to see whether smoke detectors respond appropriately.

Do you know that three out of five deaths due to housefires occur because there was no functioning smoke detector in the home? Smoke detectors save lives, and that was the theme of Enterprise Fire ...

Photoelectric smoke detectors use LED light. "When the smoke particles get into the chamber it breaks the light or deflects the light where it sets the sensor off," Kaufmann said. Meanwhile ...