If you have an emergency while at home or anywhere at Clifftops call 911. Explain your emergency, the 911 dispatcher will send the appropriate emergency service provider to you. In rural areas such as ours the 911 dispatcher may be in another city or county, however they are an Enhanced 911 Center. Which means that when you call 911 from a hard line phone (not a cell phone) the dispatcher's screen displays the name and address associated with the phone from which you are calling. The 911 dispatcher then routes your emergency to the appropriate emergency service and service provider that services your particular emergency and location. Do not call the gatehouse or the office during an emergency, call 911 immediately! Calling the office or gatehouse to have someone call 911 will only confuse and delay emergency services, call 911 first!
Clifftops entrance gate is equipped to open upon the approaching siren of an emergency vehicle.
If you have specific questions regarding response times, routes or services please call the administrative phone number provided for the appropriate emergency service provider:
Grundy Emergency Medical Services Inc. (931.592.2252) responds to medical emergencies.
Monteagle Volunteer Fire Department (931.924.2077) responds to fire emergencies.
Marion County Sheriffs Department (423.942.5667) and in some cases Franklin County Sheriffs Department, Tennessee Highway Patrol or Monteagle Police Department may respond to police emergencies.
BACKGROUND: Having a visual indication of the relative amount of water available from a fire hydrant for firefighting purposes is a great idea and one for which there is in existence a mechanism or method to accomplish the goal. N.F.P.A. standard 291 covers the recommended practice for flow testing and marking of hydrants.
The standard is available by contacting the National Fire Protection Association either in writing, at 1 Battermarch Park, Quincy, MA 02169, (617) 770-3000 by phone or on line at www.NFPA.org
The standard calls for all public fire hydrants to be painted chrome yellow unless another color has already been adopted. The hydrant tops and caps for each outlet are then color coded based on the results of flow testing done for the hydrant. If a flow of 1500 gpm or greater is present at a residual pressure of 20 psi. the recommended color is light blue. Green is used for flows that are over 1,000 gpm at the above pressure. For flows that are between 500 and 999 gpm the color is orange and red is used if the flow drops below 500 gpm.
The standard also provides details concerning how to properly and safely conduct the flow tests needed in order to implement the color coding plan described above.