CORNELIUS, N.C. — Firefighters across North Carolina are using an app to find people more quickly and efficiently during emergencies.
Firefighters in Cornelius-Lemley, Matthews, Greensboro and Raleigh have been using the app, What3words, to navigate to the exact location of a person experiencing an emergency.
The app divides the world into three meter squares and assigns each location to three unique words. For example, the app identifies the address of Cornelius-Lemley Fire Rescue with the words, “eases.viewing.primrose.”…