Sonic Fire Protection raised its new funding to help get its sound-powered fire protection system into everything from commercial kitchens to apartment buildings.

Sound waves could be the next big thing in fire-fighting technology. George Mason University engineering students Seth Robertson and Viet Tran have built a new kind of fire extinguisher that uses ...

For almost 50 years, fire extinguisher technology has remained virtually unchanged: You muffle the fire with a blanket, or spray it with a sprinkler system or pressurized canister. Today, DARPA shows ...