Arc-fault circuit breakers are a boon for household electrical safety. The garden-variety home electrical fire is usually started by the heat coming from a faulty wire arcing over. But as any ...

According to the City of Las Cruces, two people were injured after a home on the 4500 block of Nambe Arc, near Sonoma Elementary School, caught fire at around 11:20 a.m. Officials said fire crews ...

i.e., short switch-off times reliably prevent a fire from starting,” the scientists added, noting that arc fault detector successfully passes the test with energy values between 200 and 750 ...

The utility has noted multiple irregularities, but maintains there is no evidence its equipment sparked the destructive Eaton fire.