"The hometown ambulance director says," You can not believe the number of fire and the number of houses you can not see from the road.
I was interviewing him listening to stories that were posted in the newspaper in which I was hired.
I live in rural areas of Wisconsin, instead of the number of the street, the house is identified by the number of the fire. The address is the number of fire and the specific road where the house is located.
For example, my address is E6689 (fire number) and 970th Ave. (road). For many years the country's address was in country roads (the farm where I grew was Country Road 2).
But today in the 911 system, the county's rural address is identified by fire number and street or street.
"Sometimes we have to double back and forth until we find the address," the ambulance manager continued.
"There was one house where you could not see the numbers unless you knocked the roadway and went up to the garage.
"In the event of an emergency, ambulance and sheriff's departments and fire departments can not see the numbers, so I do not want to spend extra time searching for a place of residence"
surely. A delay of 5 minutes or 10 minutes may actually be a matter of life and death.
Please consider the following points so that emergency personnel can find your home.
o If the fire number is outside the road, check regularly to make sure that the shrub or tree branch is not covering the number. If shrubs or tree branches are approaching the number of your seedlings, consider organizing them again or moving the number of fire to a visible place.
o If you have a house number, drive in your car and drive past your house. Is the figure visible from the road? Is the number just large enough to see from the road? Is the number being too woven into it, is it fading enough to be seen from the road? If your house number is not easily visible from the road, please move it to a better place. If your house number is too small or too weathered so that it can be seen from the road, please exchange the number with a new one.
Following these simple steps will help emergency personnel find your home. If you have been in an emergency situation you will be delighted.
© 2007 LeAnn R. Ralph
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LeAnn R. Ralph is a reporter for Wisconsin. She is also the author of a book that grows in a small family dairy farm 40 years ago. In the Midwest book review, we refer to this series of books as "highly recommended reading". Rural Route 2 - You are invited to sign up for 2 monthly newsletters from http://ruralroute2.com
