We spoke to a fire safety expert and weighed the pros and cons of cost, reliability and installation of hardwired smoke alarms versus battery-operated. Here’s everything you need to know.

As a residential carpenter, I've installed plenty of hardwired and battery-powered smoke detectors over the years. For this guide, I interviewed three fire safety experts and tested dozens of ...

Smoke detectors provide timely alerts in the event of an emergency. The ones we've selected here are the very best. Laboratory Technical Project Manager Gianmarco Chumbe has been part of the CNET ...

Major players profiled in this report include Johnson Controls, Robert Bosch, Hochiki, Siemens and Honeywell International.

Wired smoke detectors are typically basic, but this combination smoke and carbon monoxide model from Kidde has some great features. For one thing, the hardwired smoke and carbon monoxide detector ...