The best smoke detectors are loud and reliable, alerting you to a fire in an emergency. During testing, X-Sense and First ...

Your smoke detector’s beeping is supposed to protect you, not confuse you. Yet there are moments when a chirping alarm is a ...

A new federal class-action lawsuit alleges two of the nation’s largest smoke-detector manufacturers misled consumers for decades about the ability of their alarms to warn people in time during common ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – A “false alarm” left residents shaken along the Clackamas River early Tuesday morning over fears that Rivermill Dam had malfunctioned. The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office ...

Sirens went off at 1 a.m. Tuesday near Estacada, along with public warnings that Portland General Electric’s River Mill dam could fail and area residents should evacuate immediately, people in the ...

They city of Ventura is backtracking after what they described as a “false positive” incorrectly indicated there was gasoline in some residents’ water supply. At about 12:15 p.m. Wednesday, officials ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. ShakeAlert sent a false alarm Thursday morning warning of a magnitude 5.9 earthquake in Carson City, Nev., that ...

NEW YORK, Dec 2 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Sam Altman broke the glass at OpenAI. What's more important is if the artificial intelligence juggernaut responds to the emergency or treats it as a false ...

LOS ANGELES – The ShakeAlert computer system that warns about the imminent arrival of shaking from earthquakes sent out a false alarm Thursday morning for a magnitude 5.9 temblor in Carson City, Nev., ...

An earthquake alert preparing people to "drop, cover, hold on" buzzed on phones in the US on Thursday - but turned out to be completely false. The US Geological Survey (USGS) warned a 5.9-magnitude ...

Deputies closed a section of Southwest Tualatin Valley Highway late Monday night for a deadly crash involving a car and a pedestrian.The crash happened near Sou Christmas Eve windstorm threatens to ...

Law enforcement confirmed Tuesday morning that Melodee Buzzard, the local nine-year-old missing since earlier this ...