A Fireman's Story.....
as told in a phone conversation between Jim Rose and ron thomas....
Today there was an in park emergency ... our fire department was called. Jim's pager went off with the details, scrambling him and his other brother volunteers to an address on Windmill dr.
Jim jumped in his car and drove to where he thought it might be on Windmill but he could not find the address. It wasn't on a globe and he couldn't find it on a house. He made 3 passes... Finally deducing which home it probably was he went to the aid of the 911 caller. While helping the person he heard the Fire Department rescue wagon pass the house and had to leave the house and flag them down when they turned around and came back because they could not locate it either.
This did not take place at night or in a fog inshrouded morning but in the early afternoon on one of our most brightly lit days. Jim said that it was in deed fortunate that the person involved was not having a heart attack.
If everyone would standardize the practice of putting their house numbers on their globes the emergency responders would not waste precious minutes driving in circles trying to find them.
Some of you have done it yourself recently. That is great. The Social Club Volunteers will do it for a $5 donation to the Social Club. It will cost you a trip to WalMart to buy numbers (buy 3 inch numbers) for about $2 ... Please take the time to cut them out before you mount them on a globe. A couple of you folks did not and frankly all you can see is 3 dark squares on your globe at night. Although they are visible in day light.
For those of you that just are not going to do it because you don't like the way it looks or because you have a greivance with the Social Club or for whatever reason that you have decided upon I personally hope that enough of your neighbors have theirs on so your house can be deduced by the firemen....
Tonight might be a bad time not to have an address visible. Last night at 2am to 5:30am our volunteer firemen were high in the forest above Newport trying to control a slash burn that had gotten out of control... Then they rolled on our community around noon for the above incident... I hope they won't be tired if they are looking to find your address.
as told in a phone conversation between Jim Rose and ron thomas....
Today there was an in park emergency ... our fire department was called. Jim's pager went off with the details, scrambling him and his other brother volunteers to an address on Windmill dr.
Jim jumped in his car and drove to where he thought it might be on Windmill but he could not find the address. It wasn't on a globe and he couldn't find it on a house. He made 3 passes... Finally deducing which home it probably was he went to the aid of the 911 caller. While helping the person he heard the Fire Department rescue wagon pass the house and had to leave the house and flag them down when they turned around and came back because they could not locate it either.
This did not take place at night or in a fog inshrouded morning but in the early afternoon on one of our most brightly lit days. Jim said that it was in deed fortunate that the person involved was not having a heart attack.
If everyone would standardize the practice of putting their house numbers on their globes the emergency responders would not waste precious minutes driving in circles trying to find them.
Some of you have done it yourself recently. That is great. The Social Club Volunteers will do it for a $5 donation to the Social Club. It will cost you a trip to WalMart to buy numbers (buy 3 inch numbers) for about $2 ... Please take the time to cut them out before you mount them on a globe. A couple of you folks did not and frankly all you can see is 3 dark squares on your globe at night. Although they are visible in day light.
For those of you that just are not going to do it because you don't like the way it looks or because you have a greivance with the Social Club or for whatever reason that you have decided upon I personally hope that enough of your neighbors have theirs on so your house can be deduced by the firemen....
Tonight might be a bad time not to have an address visible. Last night at 2am to 5:30am our volunteer firemen were high in the forest above Newport trying to control a slash burn that had gotten out of control... Then they rolled on our community around noon for the above incident... I hope they won't be tired if they are looking to find your address.
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