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GPS can get you in trouble around here.
I got a call one winter night (I was road foreman at the time) from Hanover Dispatch.
An ambulance needed assistance (stuck). Only trouble was they couldn't tell me exactly where they were at (no cell service around here).
They did tell me what address they were headed to though. Ambulance service for our area comes from the town of Barre so i knew what roads they would likely take........nope can't find them. Tried a few different routes....nope.
Long story short i found out the ambulance was on the way back from a previous call (Cottage Hospital in N.H.) when this call came in.
After checking every maintained road they could have taken i put the tire chains on and eventually found them half way up a class 4 (non maintained) road. Got them pulled out, backed them up a half mile, plowed out a spot for them to turn around and got them going.
Another ambulance had already been dispatched.... all turned out ok.
One of many who have chosen the wrong path.
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Pete
79 911SC RoW
"Tornadoes come out of frikkin nowhere. One minute everything is all sunshine and puppies the next thing you know you've got flying cows".- Stomachmonkey
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