Duke Fire & Life Safety Division

05/11/2021

Consumers should immediately contact Kidde for a free replacement alarm. Consumers should keep using the recalled alarms until they install replacement alarms.

09/18/2019

Campus Fire Safety Day! Come join us out on West Campus Quad in front of Duke Chapel as we partner with the Durham Fire Department to promote fire safety on this beautiful summer day o.

03/08/2019

Firefighters say you only have about three to four minutes to escape a house fire. That's down from about 17 minutes 30 years ago, according to the Tooele Army Depot Fire Department. The reason? Synthetic materials used to build new homes and new furniture burn faster and hotter than natural materia...

03/07/2019

Daylight saving time is coming up this weekend which means it's time to spring forward one hour! It's also a great time to take a couple minutes to change the batteries in your smoke alarms, or to test them to make sure they function properly.

03/05/2019

02/28/2019

The Chapel Hill Fire Department issued criminal summons last week to five UNC-Chapel Hill students of the Pi Lambda Phi fraternity for tampering with smoke alarms.

02/28/2019

02/24/2019

The incredible footage was captured by a volunteer firefighter battling the Southampton bushfires on Tuesday.

02/22/2019

RALEIGH -- North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey is backing legislation that would ban handheld cellphone use while driving as a means of saving lives, preventing injuries and driving down automobile insurance costs.

02/20/2019

On Feb. 20, 2003, the nation's fourth-deadliest nightclub fire occurred in the Town of West Warwick, RI, killing 100 people and injuring nearly 300. The emotional impact on the responding firefighters continues. Many will not discuss the incident; some still receive medical care. Legal proceedings a...

02/20/2019

Be sure to declutter your home. The life you save may be ours.