Emergency response teams cannot find you if your house number is not clearly displayed. Believe it or not, a majority are not visible from the street. It’s even worse at night. A badly displayed number can cost you precious time in an emergency. Read…
From Next Level Readiness Is your address displayed correctly? If not, you may want to check before the City of Greensboro Planning and Development Department shows up at your front door later this month. City leaders are getting ready to…
“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 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…
From the Island Packet and Beaufort Gazette, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina: Firefighters from the Burton Fire District were racing to reports of a Grays Hill infant who had stopped breathing about two weeks ago when they encountered a familiar…
From the city of Oakland Park, Florida: In the case of an emergency, such as a medical emergency or fire, a difference in minutes can mean the difference between life and death. Firefighters are equipped with many tools to help…
From WBIR.com Brenda and Wallace Reid made Hawkins County their new home four years ago. “It’s nice here where the people are friendly and there aren’t as many people” Brenda said on her front porch Thursday. They love the scenery,…
From Union County Emergency Services: Emergency response teams cannot find you if your house number is not clearly displayed. Believe it or not, a majority are not visible from the street. It’s even worse at night. A badly displayed number can cost you precious…