Buildings erected in Israel since the 1990s have built-in safe rooms to avoid bombs and air strikes. Residents told Insider what they're like, showing spaces with sparse furnishings and barricaded entries. While safe rooms are commonplace in Israel, they ...

Amid crime concerns, wealthy homeowners seek to install panic rooms, with some steel-encased versions running up to $1 million to build while one Malibu project included a secret tunnel out to the beach. By Hadley Meares Contributor “Our influx of ...

Lake Charles, LA (KPLC) - With another above-average hurricane season expected this year, it’s important to keep you and your family safe. “There’s nothing more dangerous than being inside your home, where you’re around windows and glass, and you ...

When it comes to protecting K-12 schools and students from earthquakes, tornados, or flooding, many school districts continue to resist mandating the inclusion of safe rooms or storm shelters in new and existing buildings. But that may be changing.

The mayor of Moore wants to see safe-room shelters built in all new homes. He'll put that before the Moore City Council soon. Some are suggesting above-ground shelters won't withstand storms like Monday's. There is no guarantee that a safe room will ...

March 17 -- Americans who fear that duct tape and plastic sheeting isn't enough to protect them from a possible terror attack, can borrow an idea from Israel: the ...