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 ...

Once law enforcement arrived at the resort, it was quickly determined that the report was false.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - The Lubbock Police Department is defending the city’s updated alarm ordinance after residents and business owners criticized the policy online as a “cash grab” for the city.