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Cresskill NJ, some good advice from the Cresskill Fire Department, is Your House Number Visible and Displayed Correctly????
Think of this scenario, there’s an emergency at your house. You dial 911 and speak to the dispatcher. However, it seems like it’s taking a long time for help to arrive.
Meanwhile, Fire and police have arrived on your street but they’re having problems finding your house.The house doesn’t have any easily identifiable numbers on it and the mailbox is blocked by trees
Seconds Count in an Emergency:
• Protect your family and your property by having large visible house numbers.
• Firefighters, police officers, and EMT’s find you faster when your home is properly marked.
• A visitor, child or injured person may be unable to give clear
directions.
• Emergency personnel from a neighboring community may
be unfamiliar with your area. Use Large Visible Numbers
• Numbers need to be at least 4-inches in height and facing the street.
• Put the numbers under lighting, and use numbers with a contrasting background, so they will be visible at night.
• If your driveway is long, post your house number on both sides of a mailbox or sign pole at the end of the driveway near the road.
• Be sure to keep numbers visible by trimming trees and bushes.
Yes so very true. Many homes you need to look. Very hard for the number.
In this day and age of advanced online mapping technology, you mean to tell me that our emergency services need to find an address by finding the house number displayed?
For many years I have had my house number displayed on the side of the house facing the driveway and hanging from a plaque on a lamppost very close to the street. Nevertheless, nobody seems to be able to find it.