Wanted: Clearly Marked Addresses

Visualize driving through a residential neighborhood or a rural road late at night attempting to locate an address. Compound your dilemma and frustration by placing yourself in the driver's seat of a fire apparatus, ambulance or police car responding to an emergency where seconds may mean the difference between life and death.

This frustration is all too often experienced by fire, police and EMS personnel due to the fact that many people do not mark their home address properly or provide their home address number at all. The recent implementation of the new mailing addresses for the enhanced 9...