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EMA director urges residents to post readable house numbers to speed emergency response
Summary
Greg DeBauer, Saint Marys' emergency management coordinator, reviewed local ordinance No. 85 requiring visible address numbers (4-inch minimum for residences, 10-inch for commercial) and urged the city to publicize the rule because 'every minute counts' in emergency response.
Greg DeBauer, the city’s emergency management coordinator, reminded the council and public about Saint Marys’ house-number ordinance (Ordinance No. 85, enacted 10/19/1998) and urged residents to make numbers clearly visible for emergency responders. “Every minute counts, every second counts when we're trying to find a residence,” DeBauer said.
DeBauer summarized the ordinance’s key technical requirements: residential address numbers should be composed of numbers or letters at least 4…
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