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Tuesday, August 16, 2005
ICE—In Case of Emergency
An idea from Britain: list your emergency contacts under ICE on your cell phone.
I don’t usually pass on stuff from mass e-mails, but this seems like a reasonable idea. After the last round of bombings in Great Britain, emergency workers found a lot of cell phones on people, but had no idea who they should be calling from the long lists of numbers. Some of them came up with the idea of listing emergency contact information under the acronym ICE for In Case of Emergency. Since I’ve heard that health care people will not got through a purse or wallet looking for information, and since a lot of cell phones are carried in a separate holster or in a pocket so someone would not have to enter forbidden territory to access it, this seems like a reasonable idea. If your cell phone has some sort of note field, you could add information like “Diabetic” or “Penicillin Allergy.”
These folks suggested that if you have more than one contact, then they could be listed as ICE1, ICE2, etc.
Thanks to my friends J.N. and J.T. for passing this along.