LOWELL, Mass.—Mammoth Fire Alarms, based here, has won a three-year contract to monitor the non-emergency fire signals that wireless fire-alarm boxes are now sending to the city's dispatch center.

Here are two reader questions regarding the time it should take for fire department dispatch once a fire alarm signal has been initiated: 1. We have been told several times by inspectors in three ...

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Fire detection systems are designed to discover fires early in their development when time will still be available for the safe evacuation of occupants. Early detection also plays a significant role ...

Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series on fire alarms in Pittsfield. Back in the 1950s and '60s, you could find fire alarm boxes in Pittsfield on telephone poles or on walls of ...

As part of an effort to provide faster emergency response and also reduce false alarms, Alarm.com on Sunday unveiled Smart Signal, a new emergency signaling feature within the company’s app that ...