SOUTH DUNDAS — The municipality of South Dundas has started a program designed to help first responders more easily find a farm field during an emergency.
The South Dundas Council have launched the Emily 911 Farm Entrance Program. Farmers can apply for a civic address marker for their fields. The cost is $125 per sign, but the first 100 signs are $75 (with a limit of two per landowner). Farmers apply for the signs at the South Dundas Municipal Centre at 34 Ottawa St. at Morrisburg.
The Farm 911 Project was created in honour of Emily Trudeau. The seven-year-old girl was riding in the tractor with her father near Tweed, north of Belleville in 2014. Emily fell out of the tractor and was run over. Trudeau’s mother, Angela, had to flag down the ambulance on the road after paramedics drove right past the field they were in. Emily later died in hospital.
South Dundas farmers can acquire address field markers
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