How the fire crews know where your house is...

June 28, 2008, about 1:00 pm...

When you live in the middle of "no-place" - or, Jamesburg - having an house number is sometimes a great notion. Most people out here think of it as more of an intrusion than a necessity.

If there's no house number in evidence, then it's hard to find you... usually, that's doesn't bother the locals very much. 

But in times like this, it can be devastating. So, the advance fire crews have been visiting, talking to people about evacuation and then leaving behind a marker - a pair of ribbons on a bush, in this case - indicating that they've visited and that there's are people and structure here that need to be alerted for evacuation and structures to be protected.