Dozens of firefighters were on the scene of a house fire Wednesday morning in Montgomery County that left six people without ...

THE more electronics you have at home, the more plugs you’ve probably got stuck in the wall. But one common mistake with your ...

An overloaded electrical outlet caused a fire at a Baton Rouge home Monday afternoon, April 28. According to the Baton Rouge ...

From breaker-masking to voltage mismatches to building safety codes, America’s grid isn’t ready for balcony solar power — yet ...

What Appliances or Devices Need Their Own Outlet? The basic rule is if a piece of equipment or appliance takes a lot of ...

The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office announced that an electrical issue caused a fire west of Berthoud last month, which destroyed a home and scorched the land around it. Kate Kimble, public ...

Dowling says the strong, gusty wind the area had on Monday had died down, which greatly helped the efforts to contain and extinguish the fire. West Central Electric Cooperative and the Western Area ...

Mikal Mahdi, 42, chose to be executed by a firing squad over lethal injection or the electric chair, according to the Associated Press. This will be the second execution the state has carried out ...

The cause of the fire was determined to have been an accident, with the source being “energized electrical equipment.” ...

Yadgir: A sudden and powerful storm accompanied by rain struck Karnataka's Yadgir district, leading to a serious fire accident in Jallibenchi village of Surapura taluk. The incident was reportedly ...

John Carlsen has more than a decade of experience testing and reviewing home tech products, with a major focus on smart home security. He earned his BS in journalism from Utah Valley University.

However, you may have noticed that modern electrical outlets sometimes appear to be upside down. Is this a mistake? According to master electrician Rex Cauldwell (via Fine Homebuilding), "There ...