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get to you. They’ll get out of, their emergency vehicles and | walk up to your place if neces- • sary, carrying equipment, but • time is passing. Volunteer fire * and rescue personnel are not*; supposed to be participating irj i “extreme sports” in answering ; your call. , •

Let’s assume the emergency services can get to your | place. Is there any turnaround • space? Is the parking area at I the end chock-a-block witfi your own vehicles? What is a . fire truck to do when it reaches | a dead-end driveway with no • turnaround space at all? Hoses I are just so long and pumpers | and tankers have no room to • work. Does everyone have to go backwards to the start and ; rearrange themselves? The > rescue squad may be parked at ! the start of the driveway wait- | ing its turn. Or it may have ■ been first. What if you had a stroke and time was critical? . '

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