As winter is in full swing, Monmouth Fire Captain Craig Cozadd informs responding to calls in the snow and ice is a whole different animal and offers these tips to allow the first responders to arrive more quickly and safely:
“When you have a medical call or you have something at your house, fires are a little more obvious because things are on fire generally so we can see where we are going; medical calls just a couple tips for people out there for things that we see commonly. House numbers; make sure that they are easy to see. A lot of times people have house numbers or they will be hidden somewhere where you can’t see them and also turn your porch light on. There are people who have porch lights on that are not involved with the call, but generally that is kind of a flag in the nighttime and that if a porch light is on it is probably this house, but then also the house number situation. If you can have it somewhere that is visible, makes it a lot easier for us to get there faster, more timely, then trying to find something you can’t see.”
The Monmouth Fire Department responded to 997 medical calls throughout 2021, with an average of 90 to 100 monthly.
**Written by WMOI/WRAM Director of Communications Kelsey Crain**
