Wednesday, July 13, 2005

I.C.E.

I have seen the following several times on the Net and think it could be a sensible thing to do. Just doing my bit to disseminate the information:
East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of Emergency ( ICE ) " campaign withthe 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.
For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow, Val, I hope this catches on over here. I shall make entries into my iPAQ--today! And, I'll help spread the word by referencing your posting.
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Adele said...

I've done it with my mobile phone today. It only took a couple of minutes and could be invaluable in the long run.

Anonymous said...

Obviously, since I am one who won't even use a land-line telephone (Buffy about keeled over dead when I called her, once), you know that I have no mobile phone. I nearly panicked the first time that I burrowed Hunky Husband's present car. I reached up to adjust the rear-view mirror and hit the OnStar activation button. The first inkling that I had of my clumsiness was when the car started talking to me. Then I started jabbing little buttoms trying to figure out how to kill the thing. Another "Oh, me!"
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Anonymous said...

Great idea and I hope it catches on. I will definitely make sure that my husband and I take a few minutes to do this.

Adele said...

Maria, thank you for visiting and Welome. Please pass on this message about I C E to everyone you know. I hope that it is never needed to be used, but if it is I am sure that it could be helpful.

Cop Car - "On Star" is this one of those nevigation devices I have heard about? We don't have one but I understand that they can be very useful if you do a lot of driving in places you have never been before.

Anonymous said...

I'm no expert on OnStar My understanding is that it is essentially an emergency cell phone. When activated, it sends out a radio signal that is received (via satellite) by the company furnishing the service. The service attempts to communicate with the people in the car--and can provide navigational aid, if requested (they can triangulate on the radio signal, thus pin-pointing your location). If they receive no response (an accelerometer activates the system when it senses high deceleration), they send emergency response teams to your location. It came with Hunky Husband's latest car, but he does not plan to renew the service. It is a few hundred dollars per year to continue the service (his car will be one year old in a few weeks).
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Adele said...

Ah, I understand. Not a service that we have over here but then no-one over here tends to be very far from at least someone else (unless you are in the wilds of Scotland or something). I can imagine that in a country with all those vast spaces like the US such a system would be useful.

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