The triggering of false alarms in automatic fire detection systems is a problem that plagues fire and rescue services (FRS) around the world. In the UK the spotlight on this problem was recently ...

Everyday throughout the United States, fire departments respond to numerous fire alarm activations. Automatically, most firefighters react with a sense of frustration when these alarms occur.

Ottawa Fire Services says out of the nearly 30,000 calls it responded to last year, more than a third were for false alarms.That figure has the chief and others looking for ways to free up resources, ...

Fire alarms need to be less stupid Since smoke detectors are wrong 98% of the time, restoring the public’s trust in fire alarms will require a smarter, more accurate approach.

Put together by Hochiki Europe the following infographic shares the shocking stats about false fire alarms, the primary causes and damaging impacts as well as the solutions to the false alarm problem.

(TNS) - The future is weighing heavily on the volunteer fire department. The need is as critical as ever — more so now that today’s firefighter is more than a person with a helmet and a fire ...

When the Richmond Fire Prevention Division inspected William Fox Elementary School on August 24, 2021, inspectors found the alarm panel in "trouble" mode and told the Richmond Public School System ...

Emails obtained by the Problem Solvers through a Freedom of Information Act request showed Richmond Alarm told RPS facilities they needed to contact subcontractors to make some of the fixes, and ...