No warnings in Fort McMurray fire after alarm pulled

A woman who called 911 about a fire in her Fort McMurray apartment building says warnings didn't go off when she pulled the building's alarm system.

Why S.F. still counts on street fire alarm boxes

Every year, San Francisco firefighters respond to emergency calls from a street alarm box system that was in use when horses still pulled the engines. There's almost no part of the city that's more than two blocks away...

Alarming situation: Faulty fire alarm system at Daphne City Hall

Daphne's City Hall has been without a key component of its fire alarm system -- which is required in large commercial structures -- since a $7 million renovation was completed in 2009.

Gamewell-FCI Releases High-Tech Fire Alarm & Emergency Communications Monitoring, ...

New Technologies Improve Monitoring, Maintenance and Emergency Response NORTHFORD, Conn., January 30, 2012 - Gamewell-FCI by Honeywell (NYSE: HON) announces an expanded line of cutting-edge technologies, designed to simplify the complexities of monitoring and controlling one or more fire alarm and emergency communications systems (ECS) and speed emergency response. The FocalPoint® family of ...

Cause of house fire under investigation

URBANA — A house fire Wednesday night on Urbana's northeast side is under investigation by the MABAS (the Mutual Aid Box Alarm System) fire investigation team. read more