When a residential or business security alarm activates, two Maui police officers are dispatched to the scene. It’s likely that they’ve been diverted from other police business, on the chance that ...

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 ...

When a high-pitched whine pierces the normal hum of campus, most students take little notice as a few unlucky residents wander out to the quad, resigned to several minutes of another fire alarm. But ...

RALEIGH, North Carolina -- Kazeem Oyeneyin has lived in his home in Raleigh for the past five years and this wasn't the first time his home security system has been tripped by mistake. Typically, he ...

DIORIO SHOWS US WHAT THESE CALLS HAVE COST OVER TIME. BETWEEN TIME, MANPOWER AND FUEL. IT TAKES A LOT OF EFFORT AND TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO GET THESE TRUCKS AND EQUIPMENT UP AND RUNNING FOR A CALL. AND ...

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 ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - As of October 1, 2025, citizens with alarm systems are now required to have a valid permit in compliance with the City of Lubbock’s updated False Alarm Ordinance. The Lubbock ...