I C E

Hello! I have a question for you.

Do you know what I C E means? It means In Case of Emergency !

here is an article (found at http://www.advisor.com/boomer/story/help-emergency-services-help-you )about it:

Help Emergency Services Help You

ICE campaign aims to help paramedics know who to contact in case of emergency.

Many of us carry a mobile phone with the phone numbers of our loved ones stored in a list of contacts, so if we were to get in an accident, the paramedics would have that information at their fingertips, right?

Well, yes and no. The numbers are there, but the paramedics don't know who you'd want them to contact in the case of an emergency.

Hence the "ICE" campaign: Store your emergency contacts in your mobile phone's address book under the entry "ICE" (an acronym for In Case of Emergency) and emergency personnel will know who to contact. If you have more than one emergency contact, store them in your contact list as ICE1, ICE2, etc.

The ICE campaign was launched in April 2005 by Bob Brotchie, a paramedic in Cambridge, U.K. After many experiences struggling to get contact details from shocked or injured patients, Brotchie teamed up with European cell phone company Vodaphone to do a survey that revealed 75 percent of people do not carry details about who they would like telephoned following a serious accident. The campaign gained wide acceptance after the London subway bombings in July 2005.

E-mail hoaxer tries to sabotage ICE

Awareness of the ICE campaign was also helped along by a widely forwarded e-mail that originated from the East Anglian Ambulance Service where Bob Brotchie is stationed. Unfortunately, a separate e-mail, circulated by malicious hoaxers suggests that ICE is a type of mobile phone virus that accesses your address book and drains pay-as-you-go phones of their credits. Matt Ware, spokesman for the East Anglian Ambulance Service, is asking people to ignore the hoax email.

"I have been inundated with hundreds of e-mails and phone calls from people worried that, having put ICE into their mobiles, they are now going to be charged for the privilege," he says. "We would like to assure people that that's not the case. We have checked with mobile phone companies; this alleged scam is a technological impossibility. Whoever began this second e-mail chain is obviously a malicious person with way too much time on their hands. It's probably reached almost as many people as the original e-mail. The sad thing is that there have doubtless been many people who have removed ICE from their phonebooks."


I am going to put several I C E entries into my cell phone tonight. I encourage you to do this also! ~ Fearlessly yours, Joan Hulihan