closing road to emergency services

pinkteapot

Most local fire brigades have a service where they'll offer you advice on how fire-safe your home is. You could find that service in your local area and ring the number to ask what would happen if someone has a fire while this work is going on. The person answering that phone-line may not know, but could probably find out.

Just as a way of getting in touch with the Fire Brigade without phoning 999! I'd want to know if the answer is just "sorry, you'll be on your own". Might be a bit more conscious of turning all my plugs off overnight.

Are you in an area with Mountain Rescue teams? If so and you needed an ambulance, they might get called in to help and would get to you no problem. We're in the Lakes and ours occasionally get called to non-mountain jobs where people have been taken ill some distance from a road. 

babyblade41

I'm sure we will be fine , it was just the way the council just lands it on your door step without a thought of how in an emergency what contingency plans have been put in place .
The letter which was put through the door by hand was a bit blunt , but I suppose that's councils for you 

unforeseen

Better to be blunt and understood than pad it out with waffle where you end up trying to work out what they mean. 

Section62

babyblade41 said:

The letter which was put through the door by hand was a bit blunt , but I suppose that's councils for you 

Was it from the council, or from the water co?  It is usual for the utility co doing the work to do the lettering, and theirs tend to be written by people who write in a less polished style (trying to be diplomatic here).

I take unforeseen's point about a balance between blunt and 'waffle', but there is a need for the information to be factually accurate, to explain what options people have and what preparations they need to make, and most impotantly not to mislead.

'Blunt' very often skips over the important details like what to do in an emergency and what rights residents have.  Informing people and putting people's minds at rest are the main aims of these letters, if they don't do that they are a waste of time.

babyblade41

Thanks all , the letter was from the county council..
Once the contractors are on site, I will ask them about emergency vehicles at end of day .

Last time we could have had access but one of the work vans was left on site over night