Question: There was a house fire on our street last week. Investigators traced the cause to a short circuit in an electrical wire. Now I'm terrified that a fire can start in my home without warning.

Q–There was a house fire on our street last week. Investigators traced the cause to a short in an electrical wire. Now I’m terrified that a fire can start in my home without warning. Why didn’t the ...

A building requirement aimed at making new homes in Ohio safer from the threat of electrical fires will go into effect a year after originally intended. The new rules, part of the 2008 National ...

A new home with traditional circuit breakers is just as susceptible to an electrical fire as one that is 100 years old. But luckily, there’s a new type of circuit breaker that can sense when a fire is ...

The 2002 NEC implemented new requirements to help reduce the number of electrical fires caused by parallel arc faults in branch circuit wiring. All branch circuits supplying bedrooms in single-family ...

Eaton Aerospace is to shrink its arc-fault circuit interrupter (AFCI) for use in fighters and adapt the technology to DC and three-phase AC electrical systems. Single-phase AC arc-fault circuit ...

The 2008 National Electrical Code (NEC) will require arc-fault circuit interrupters (AFCIs) throughout new homes in the U.S. So, your new construction should now incorporate ground-fault circuit ...

According to the National Fire Protection Association and the National Fire Incident Reporting System data, the five-year period from 1994 to 1998 averaged 73,500 annual electrical fires that were ...

The United States' National Electrical Code (NEC) recently expanded Arc-Fault Circuit Interrupter (AFCI) requirements (see "Arc-Detecting Circuit Breakers Will See Wider Use" at ...

Arc fault circuit interrupters or AFCIs serve an important purpose: they prevent electrical fires caused by wiring problems. An AFCI detects electric arcs, breaking the circuit before trouble arises.

Those of us old enough to remember fuse boxes don't look back fondly on them. A light went out and you ran to the box, removed the burned-out fuse and replaced it with a new one from your ever-ready ...