About 328,000 smoke alarms sold nationwide and online by the Home Shopping Network — or as it now calls itself, HSN — are being recalled because the products can malfunction and fail to alert ...

Inside a smoke detector. The Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, CC BY-NC-ND. Inside your smoke detector, there’s a small Americium-241 radiation source that’s a byproduct of nuclear fuel ...

OWINGS MILLS, Md. (CBS) -- Check your smoke detectors – Universal Security Instruments is recalling 180,000 of them over a faulty switch. "The smoke alarms can have a misaligned internal switch ...

Over 300,000 smoke alarms sold nationwide by the Home Shopping Network have been recalled because they may malfunction and fail to alert consumers of a fire, posing a risk of smoke inhalation or ...

If the smoke alarm does not sound, contact Universal Security immediately for a replacement. The company has received 134 reports of failure to properly activate during installation.

If your alarm was manufactured before October of 2013, it’s time to replace that alarm with a 10-year sealed battery device. Test smoke alarms as Daylight Saving Time ends | News | wrex.com Skip ...

HOUSTON – If you have a Kidde brand smoke alarm in your home, you should check it because 226,000 of them are under recall. The manufacturer says they may fail to alert consumers of a fire.

These smoke alarms may malfunction, meaning they won’t alert people to smoke — and, by consequence, to a potential fire — like they should.

Inside your smoke detector, there’s a small Americium-241 radiation source that’s a byproduct of nuclear fuel. It emits alpha particles, which you can think of as little bullets.