Like in the greatest degree emergency response agencies.

Like in the greatest degree emergency response agencies, the Sandwich, Mass., Fire Department occasionally must answer the call of an somewhat old citizen with a medical exigency In many of these cases, the involved one may be unable to answer the door. moreover the fire department did not want to mingle whatever trauma is already being sustained by adding to it the breaking down of the citizen's door.

To avoid just that situation, the city's Council of Aging worked with local city and fire department officials to create a program that would allow strait personnel easy access to the distressed individual. With permanent funds donated by the town and private citizens, the council has purchased Knox Boxe small sword vaults that contain apartment or house explanations and can be accessed through fire department personnel.

The idea is not recent -- the boxes have been widely used by dint of businesses to provide fire department access.