Ray Saurette
樱桃视频Fire Rescue
Everyone knows the frustration in trying to find an address on a street where it is hard to find a visible house number.
Now imagine yourself in the driver's seat of a fire truck, or an ambulance or police car. You are responding lights and sirens to someone's call for help, and every second counts. The few precious moments that it takes to search for obscured street addresses in the dark, or search through map books, can seem like an eternity.
The next time you pull into your driveway, please consider how easy it would be for emergency personnel to find your home. Are there legible numbers on the building that could be seen from a passing vehicle? Could anyone find it in the dark?
Service providers have street signage and comprehensive maps to refer to in responding to local emergencies. However, your local fire, police, and ambulance inevitably encounter delays associated to properties that have no visible street numbers displayed on their building, buildings where the street number has been painted over, numbers placed elsewhere on the property and not on the building, such as a landscaping rock, street numbers which are too small or do not contrast with their background colour, and shrubs, vines, and trees which have grown to the point they hide the numbers.
All these challenges can make it next to impossible to find some homes at night.樱桃视频Fire Rescue would like to remind homeowners that everyone has a role to play in ensuring the quickest possible response from their emergency service providers. Please affix highly visible street numbers to an easily spotted place on your home.
Should you have any questions, please contact your fire department at 604-898-9666.
