An inspirational subject: "ICE" - In Case of Emer

Pacion

Pacion

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Something useful, and it is not a hoax.

East Anglian Ambulance Service (UK) have launched a national "In case of Emergency ( ICE ) " campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon Weston.

The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency".

In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do.

Please will you also email this to everybody in your address book, it won't take too many 'forwards' before everybody will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest.

For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.
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Sadly, someone/someones have been sending out emails saying that this "campaign" is hoax and by typing "ICE" into your mobile/cell phone, it makes your phone vulnerable to phone viruses. It does not.


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Who/what are your ICE1 and ICE2 numbers? :raisebro: :lol: :wink:

(Only teasing. I don't want an honest answer, so you can lie. Just bear in mind though, any response you may have given in my theard about going a week without lying :lol: )
 
Well; ICE is my husband's cell phone, ICE2 is my husband at work and ICE3 is my home number. I will have to put my mother's number in there at some point....just in case we're all in trouble together.
 
:lol: Thanks.

In another email I saw, the sender/writer did suggest that if one did input ICE into their mobile, they selected the person they would like to have contacted because in some cases, whilst our parents may be the most logical person, if they are elderly, it might be prefered for another family member/friend to break the news to them.
 
Someone forwarded me this e-mail at work today... Not sure it will help with my broken phone display... But it's not very useful unless everyone knows about it and knows to look for it in case of emergency...
 
It seems that it is only a UK initiative/campaign. I know other people overseas have been receiving the emails from friends in the UK also.

Perhaps other countries might cotton on to the idea? (and use a different acronym? :lol: )
 
It's a great idea.

Years and years ago, when I got my first cell phone, I programmed "Home" into it to ring my house. One day I lost my cellphone. The person who found it paged through the address book to see if there happened to be anyone he knew in it to see if he could contact them to figure out who the owner of the phone was. When he got to the entry called "Home," he rang it and got me at home. It was wonderful to get my phone back.

Something like this happened to me in the pre-cellphone era, too...I lost my address book in a store. I had an entry in it called "Mom & Dad." The person who found my address book called my Mom, who called me at work, and I got my address book back.

I have entries for "Mom & Dad" and "Home" in my cellphone to this day. Adding an ICE to ring my husband makes perfect sense...this way people will have three good ways of finding someone directly related to me if something happens.
 
I've heard about it here in the states a few times as well. I went ahead and entered an ICE into my phone, mostly at my mother's request. ICE now includes home, both my parent's mobiles, mom's work (the church), and our address. My phone is fancy and saves multiple numbers under one name ;) Actually my parents are in my phone as "mi madre" and "daddy" so I think someone should figure it out. My phone also has a cool thing that bumps my 15 most frequent contacts to the top of my contact list... not my parents but the top 5 would certainly work in a pinch.
 
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