Any threat to Hearst Castle is a big deal, given its prominence as a historic-house museum and scenic State Parks monument that, in 1919, previous owner William Randolph Hearst started to build ...

A 4-1/2-year-old child who is hard-of-hearing can sleep more securely now that Buffalo Grove firefighters equipped his family’s home with one of the state’s first “bed shaker” smoke alarm systems. The ...

An ear-splitting smoke alarm siren is one of the worst midnight surprises. But it's even worse when your detector keeps beeping in the middle of the night but then stops and acts perfectly normal ...

Ankeny fire officials say a smoke alarm their department installed helped alert a homeowner of a fire Monday morning. It happened around 8 a.m. Monday in the 500 block of SW Ash Drive near Uptown ...