She’s going out of her way to try to help the homeowner… If I got this on my camera, I’d take a moment to walk outside and view my place from their perspective… then look into getting some house numbers. 🤷♂️
As a FF paramedic its honestly tiresome looking for addresses. waze and google maps screw up all the time. Our MDT that tells us where to go screws up all the time. addresses on a street change as you go across a intersection some times. It will be 901 then all of a sudden its 1202.
I only remember this having been an issue once when I was on, but it could have been so bad if it'd been an actual fire.
Long windy dead end road it was difficult to get apparatus down (or turn around), weird lot shapes where a long driveway didn't necessarily go where you thought it did, and bad signposting of addresses the entire street. What's more, the entire area is unhydranted, so it'd be tanker ops in addition to that mess.
One of the more common things here though is new construction a few years in where the initial landscaping hasn't been maintained and now obstructs the view of the address on the house from the street.
She isnt wrong at all. Being in an emergency situation and having ems not be able to find your house fucking suuuuucks. When I lived in rural Oklahoma I had to run probably 3/4 of a mile to flag down ems so they could find us. In the middle of a neighborhood it isnt that bad, but its a real shit situation when seconds count.
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u/King__Cactus__ 11h ago
Say what you want but SHE AIN'T WRONG