No one tells you what those different beeps or on-off lights on your smoke detector mean. Here's what you need to know.

The high-pitched beeping from a carbon monoxide detector may annoy you. But don’t unplug it or otherwise disable it, says South Lyon Fire Chief Joey Thorington. South Lyon firefighters were called to ...

We’ve all been there. It’s 2 a.m. and you hear an eardrum-piercing beep. Your first reaction is to cover your head with a pillow and pretend it never happened. Eventually the slow chirping takes ...