When responding to a emergency call, a police officer, firefighter or rescue squad worker coming to your assistance can lose valuable time if there's difficulty locating your home. A prominent and visible house number is an essential part of identify your home.

• Could we find your house quickly, with the proper street address prominently displayed and visible to emergency vehicles?
   
• If you have questions about how your address should be displayed, contact your local Fire Department. In the meantime, please read the following guidelines and then check your address numbers today.
   
• Address numbers should be displayed at the driveway entrance on a mailbox, post, or fence that is easily visible from the road in any direction.
   
• If the structure is one hundred feet or less from the road, the entrance door of the house or structure is clearly visible from the road, and there is no other suitable location at the normal entrance, then address numbers should be displayed on, above, or at the side of the main entrance door.
   
• The address number should be displayed as numbers and not spelled out.
   
• The numerals displayed should be at least three (3) inches in height on a color-contrasting background. Using reflective numbers is also a good idea.
   
• Are the numbers visible at night?
   
• If the mailbox is not actually located on the street, then the entire address (number and road name) should be shown on that mailbox to avoid any confusion.Numbers previously displayed, complete or partial, which might be confused with or mistaken for the assigned address number, should be removed from the mailbox and property.
   
• Numbers should be properly maintained by the property owner to make sure that they remain readable from the road.