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Permalink Reply by Justin Scott on January 15, 2011 at 3:44pm

Iv always been taught that the address side of the structure is the A side, that’s what we use around here. numbering we only use when identifying floors.

Permalink Reply by Chris Weber on January 15, 2011 at 10:15pm

We always go with the side facing the street is A,left side is B,back side is C and right side is D.This is all from looking at it from the street.Use numbering when assigning floors(division 1,division 2,etc...)Seems to work OK.

Permalink Reply by Matthew LaRock on January 17, 2011 at 1:06am

We use Side "A" most of the time as the street side; however there are times we may designate side "A" as the side the 1st line went through the door. This is ok as long as it is communicated to everyone on the fireground

As far as the sides being numbered; we don't do that. We use 1,2,3,4....... to designate floors i.e division 1 being the ground floor or floor the main entrance is on and so on when it comes to basement we just use basement division.

Permalink Reply by Tom Williams on January 17, 2011 at 6:46am

We also assign side A as the side of the structure that faces the street and numbers for the floors.

Permalink Reply by Chief Dino on January 24, 2011 at 8:40am

Our area is very rural and most homes are set back from the road a ways and not always facing the road (my house is a little over 500' from the road). For us the front door is always the "A" side and numbers are used for floors.

Permalink Reply by ian wilcox on April 19, 2011 at 12:07am

here the side the engine is on is the A side then everything goes clockwise and floors are numbered

Permalink Reply by Chuck Wehrli on July 3, 2013 at 5:11pm

Most of us followed the A B C D sides and in the last few years they are giving them Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta name sine radio communications can be distorted and B, C, and D sound similar . Just saying.