Hunt the House – volunteers look for houses on Canford Heath

On 23 May four kind volunteers took part in a timed exercise to find properties with the aim of showing the importance of having visible numbers to aid emergency services.  Working in pairs, two found the property and put a more visible number on it and the second pair had to find it.  The volunteers found one property two minutes quicker when a more visible number was added.  In another road it took them 1 minute 35 seconds quicker to find a property, rather than one without any numbers at all!  This was in daylight, it would take even longer to find these properties in the dark.  The minutes may seem small, but to someone who needs urgent medical attention, they could be the most important minutes of their life.

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