Firefighters were caught off guard, as they believed they were heading to a medical emergency rather than a structure fire.

Brenham Fire Department crews responded to a series of traffic incidents and a false fire alarm Monday, according to A-Shift ...

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 ...

Residents and business owners will face higher fees for repeated false alarms under recommendations fire/EMS and police made Tuesday. No action was taken Tuesday as Fire Chief Ryan Dunn and Police ...

A person died in a house fire in Easton Thursday night, fire department officials announced. The Easton Fire Department ...

Greensburg firefighters say they're tired of racing to calls that turn out to be nothing. They say nearly one in five alarms they respond to is false, and now the city's ready to crack down on ...

When: East Lampeter Twp. Board of Supervisors meeting, July 14. What happened: Supervisors discussed ways to reduce the number of false fire alarms after viewing data from one of the four fire ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The City of Tucson has come up with a plan to have its firefighters not respond to false fire alarms at the University of Arizona (U of A) campus. The Tucson Fire Department ...

Residents of an apartment block say they are "on edge all of the time" due to faulty alarms going off day and night. Heat ...

The University has responded to almost 40 false fire alarms sounded from pull stations in the Graduate College since the middle of February, according to Crime Prevention Specialist Barry Weiser. The ...