Every winter, the same quiet mistake plays out in living rooms and bedrooms across the country: a space heater tucked beside ...

As wind chills dip into the teens starting this weekend, Escambia County Fire Rescue is reminding residents how to stay safe inside their homes during frigid temperatures. Home fires occur more in the ...

With temperatures falling across north Georgia, hardware stores are getting busy. For longtime hardware expert Aaron Lester, it's a familiar sight. "Thirty years in the hardware business," Lester said ...

DURHAM, N.C. (WTVD) -- When it's cold outside many of us may resort to using supplemental heat like a space heater to stay warm. Fire departments don't discourage it, however, they emphatically ...

Most space heaters provide substantial warmth to drafty rooms or chilly offices for less than $100. In Consumer Reports’ space heater testing, we’ve found a number of models that work well—and some ...

That doesn’t mean you can’t use one safely. It just means they require a little extra attention: keeping them away from anything that can burn, plugging them directly into the wall, and turning them ...

Home space heater use accounts for nearly 500 deaths per year, according to statistics from a national group, but you can use the devices to provide warmth and still stay safe by following safety tips ...

When the temperatures dip into the low 30s or 40s, dangers rise for the Enterprise Fire Department. During this week’s cooler weather, electrical space heaters are becoming more of a problem for ...