One of the more unsafe, overlooked maintenance items in a home is your dryer vent. The National Fire Protection Association reports nearly 17,000 home clothes dryers catch fire yearly resulting in, on ...

A mobile home fire that displaced a family Sunday night northeast of Elmore’s Corner originated in a dryer vent, said Karola Hanks, fire marshal with the Durango Fire Protection District. The fire was ...

Tumble dryers are a home appliance that many of us take for granted. We toss damp clothes in, and we get dry clothes out. End of story. But that’s not where the tale ends for some unfortunate ...

Bensalem Township Fire Rescue shares a safety tip on social media about the fire risk from clogged dryer vents.

LAKEWOOD – A dryer vent is being blamed for a house fire. On Tuesday around 3:30 p.m. the Lakewood Fire Department along with Ashville, Busti, and Celoron Fire Departments were dispatched to a ...

SPOKANE, Wash.– The Spokane Fire Department says more than 16,000 residential fires started by dryers happen every year across the U.S. Spokane fire officials say checking your dryer vent often can ...

Chauncey grew up on a farm in rural northern California. At 18 he ran away and saw the world with a backpack and a credit card, discovering that the true value of any point or mile is the experience ...

Have you ever watched professional dryer vent cleaning in action? I just did. Amazing how fast and efficiently that crew worked to take care of all 32 units in my condo complex. Equally amazing was ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — A woman in Clearwater lost everything in a fire that officials say started with her dryer. “My dryer was on fire. That’s all I know," said Melody Snow. The call came in shortly ...