Tuesday, July 26, 2005

Using Modern Technology: ICE

Have you seen this email?
Paramedics will turn to a victim's cell phone for clues to that person's identity. You can make their job much easier with a simple idea that they are trying to get everyone to adopt: ICE.
ICE stands for In Case of Emergency. If you add an entry in the contacts list in your cell phone under ICE, with the name and phone no. of the person that the emergency services should call on your behalf, you can save them a lot of time and have your loved ones contacted quickly. It only takes a few moments of your time to do.

Paramedics know what ICE means and they look for it immediately. ICE your cell phone NOW!

Please pass this along

I think this is worth doing. First Responders (paramedics, police, firemen, etc.) used to have to look for clues to your identity and then who they should contact on your behalf. Sometimes your wallet or purse or the papers in your car had that info, but this ICE plan to put that info into your cell phone makes a lot of sense to me.

We'll be doing it at the JACK ARMY household. Here's hoping my family and yours never needs it.