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Working together to keep you safe JONAS GAGNON Observer Reporter Grey on grey roman numerals on the front of you're house may mean you're classy, but they may also mean you'll watch emergency services blast past your house, returning slowly as the passenger counts houses, searches
for numbers and tries to guesstimate where they are. Helping each other help themselves, emergency services have come together to encourage you to have house numbers proudly displayed, not playing hide and seek. Here's a list of questions emergency responders
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want you to ask yourself: • Are your house numbers visible from the street? •Are they set on a contrasting background? •If your house is hidden, is your house number attached to a visible fence, mailbox, or gate? •If you live on a corner, does your house number face the street named in
your address? So go outside and take a look, or better yet have someone else take a quick look to see if they can sight it a glance. Plain numerals, three and a half to five inches high, in plain sight of the road and lit are your best bet for the front of your house. Bronze or brass numbers
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may be the look you are going for, but they are difficult to see. If there’s bushes blocking sight from either up or down your street or numbers that aren’t easy to read and understand at a glance, it’s adding difficulty to an already stressful situation. Now that people are
getting rid of their house phones, its important to remember no matter how well lit your numbers are, if you’re calling from a cell phone and get cut off the emergency responders have no way of knowing your address. So remember to identify your cell phone number with your home.
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