Smoke alarms save lives, but if they shriek every time you sear a steak or run a hot shower, you are more likely to silence ...

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 ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (WSIL) -- One city's first responders are sick and tired of responding to false alarms. To help reduce the number of false calls, the City of Cape Girardeau implemented a new alarm ...

SECURE YOUR HOME IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. GOOD EVENING. I’M JULIE CORNELL. ROB: I’M ROB MCCARTNEY. THE SHERIFF’S DEPARTMENT SAYS IT’S WASTING RESOURCES RESPONDING TO FALSE ALARMS, SO -- RESPONDING TO FALSE ...

With little discussion in front of a sparse crowd Tuesday, the Sandy Springs City Council put the finishing touches on a controversial home and business alarm ordinance designed to cut down on false ...

Starting Wednesday, false alarms will mean fines for Raleigh homeowners. Under a new ordinance, homeowners will have to pay if their security system goes off by accident. Fines will be imposed for ...

Security teams face an impossible choice: set thresholds too sensitive and drown in false positives, or set them too loose and miss real attacks. Traditional monitoring systems force this trade-off ...