With her boyfriend in severe abdominal pain, Sharon Edge called 911 for an ambulance in the early morning hours of Feb. 6. Heavy snow was falling — so heavy it would all but bring the city to a standstill —…
From The Spokesman-Review Washington residents are likely to pay an extra 25 cents a month next year for every phone line they have, whether it’s a land line, a cell phone or an Internet-connected system. The House of Representatives passed…
From CNNMoney. Text to 911 is coming. The FCC is in the midst of a Text-to-911 exhibition fair this week. See Tech Tumblr – Technology News.
From the Le Mars Daily Sentinel. As more and more people choose cellphones over landline telephones, Iowa counties’ E911 budgets are taking a financial hit. Plymouth County currently receives a $1 monthly surcharge on landline telephones to help maintain its…
“Until there is an emergency in your life, your physical address doesn’t matter.” That’s how Kelly Atchley, an employee of the North Tahoe Fire Protection District in Placer County, California, near Lake Tahoe, described people’s attitudes towards house numbers. In…
From MSNBC.COM Donnie and Sharon Leutjen and their 15-year-old granddaughter, Taron Leutjen, were found June 9. They had been shot to death, and their bodies had lain in their home in Cole Camp, Mo., for about two days. Authorities know…
From Men’s Health The dispatcher had said, “21-year-old male, trouble breathing.” But when paramedics Russ Bryant and Mike Haley arrive on the scene in North Philadelphia a few minutes later, the man is breathing just fine. “What’s going on?” Bryant…
From the Lake Cowichan Gazette It is a common problem across British Columbia and North America; emergency responders such as fire, police and EMS experience response delays to improper or poorly marked house numbers. Not all calls that the Lake…
From the Westover Subdivision: The Westover Board of Directors voted to amend the Architectural Review Guidelines Article VII Section 7.2 Mailboxes/Street Numbers, effective January 1, 2007. The complete Covenants and Guidelines can be located at www.westoverpoa.org Background: Mailboxes began to…
From the Turks and Caicos Islands city government: House Number Standards – Don’t Take a Chance If you don’t conform to these standards, you should take time to improve the visibility of your house number. Precious seconds can be lost…