It's the middle of the night and you or a loved one is sick or injured and is in immediate need of Emergency Medical Services. When seconds count, finding your address quickly can mean the difference between life and death.
When Fire Department crews are searching a street for a particular house in an emergency, it is often difficult to read addresses. Sometimes the numbers are too small to see from the road, or are obscured by trees and other objects, or are painted a color too close to the color of the house and even in some cases are absent altogether. Especially time-consuming to read are the handwritten numbers such as 'Seven Thousand Four Hundred and Twenty Eight'.
