Electric garage doors newly sold or installed in California will soon be required to have backup batteries equipped to power them through utility outages under legislation signed into law Friday by ...

Lawmakers have passed Senator Bill Dodd’s wildfire-related garage door safety bill. The proposal, which will require newly sold or installed electric garage door ...

State Sen. Bill Dodd introduced legislation Thursday that would require all new electrical garage doors in California to include a backup battery, a measure intended to improve residents’ safety in ...

Feb. 03--The devastating North Bay wildfires left "numerous" residents "unable to open their garage doors to flee the flames," so Sen. Bill Dodd (D-Napa) introduced a ...