The evidence left after any building fire can often be misleading. Melted copper wires can suggest electrical arcing was at fault, or they can just be casualties of the fire. In either case, arc ...

In the dark basement of a duplex on North 19th Street in Milwaukee, Bruce Janczak shines his flashlight at an electrical service panel on the wall. “Touch that and you’ll go flying,” he says. The aged ...

Home inspectors keep circling the same quiet defect inside electrical panels, and it is not a burned wire or a missing ...

Arcing electrical wires may have caused a house fire in Blackman Township this morning. The Blackman-Leoni Township Department of Public Safety received a report of arcing wires in the roadwayin the ...

MILL VALLEY (CBS SF) -- A Mill Valley man who went to investigate a downed power line in his neighborhood Wednesday night was struck and killed after he heard a tree crack and ran into the path of a ...

Dear James: I am concerned about a fire from an electrical issue in my older house. What are the differences among fuses, breakers, GFCI and AFCI, and which are best? — Peggy T. Dear Peggy: You are ...

Hiring an electrician to perform electrical work in your home isn’t just about saving yourself a bit of manual labor. Home fire safety is one of the most crucial components of the electrical building ...

In the first moments of the Maui fires, when high winds brought down power poles, slapping electrified wires to the dry grass below, there was a reason the flames erupted all at once in long, neat ...

At 8:34 a.m. Wednesday, Columbia County 911 dispatched the Chatham Fire Department to 5 Library Place in Chatham for a report of wires down and burning. At 8:39 a.m., the fire department was then ...