While burglaries are increasing, the number of homeowners having alarm systems installed has tailed off in recent months. “With money tight, people appear reluctant to spend money on having ...

From 2005 to 2008, more than 500 patients in the United States had adverse outcomes, mostly death, because an alarm was ignored, or a device was silenced or mismanaged in some way, according to ...

Wherever there’s a concentration of residences with home-security systems, there will be a lot of false-alarm calls. As the county grows, so will the number of false alarms. Unlike some Central ...

Hackaday readers may remember a whistle detection device that I [limpkin] designed some time ago. As [Kevin] saw the new Staff roll call, he discovered this project and wanted to make his version ...

Casey Hospital executive director Peter Faulkner said the alarm failure had not affected patients. The whistles were issued ... Mr Faulkner said all systems had been deemed fully operational ...

The alarm sounds 10 times. Myers said the whistle is sounded only in the event of fires. Meyers said all the volunteer firemen are issued beepers, which are activated by certain tones through the ...

Rising steam from showering or even cigarette smoke in close proximity to the device can activate the alarm. Dust or dirt that accumulates inside the smoke detector, or tiny insects that enter the ...

A Texas elementary school teacher was arrested and charged this week after being accused of using an electronic dog whistle to control ... and cried about the "fire alarms" hurting his ears ...

Manhattan Institute Fellow sounds alarm on left's 'dog whistle' Heather Mac Donald told Tucker Carlson Today when a ‘revolutionary anarchist’ attacks police, they’re attacking the very ...