Emergency Preparedness

Concept Of Ice - For Your Dearest

A simple way to help emergency personnel quickly identify and contact the people closest to you when every minute matters.

What Is ICE?

We all carry our mobile phones with hundreds of names and numbers stored in their memory, but nobody other than ourselves may know which of those numbers belong to our near and dear ones.

If we are involved in an accident or have a heart attack, the people attending to us may get hold of our mobile phone but still not know which number to call to inform our family members. There may be many numbers stored, but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency?

For this reason, we should store one or more telephone numbers under the name ICE — In Case of Emergency in our mobile phones.

How the Concept Works

The concept of “ICE” is a simple and important method of contact during emergency situations. As mobile phones are carried by the majority of the population, a person who should be contacted during an emergency can be saved as “ICE,” meaning “In Case of Emergency.”

The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that mobile phones were often present at accident scenes, but responders did not know which number to call. He therefore believed it would be useful to have a nationally recognized name for this purpose.

Following a disaster in London, the East Anglican Ambulance Service launched a national “In Case of Emergency (ICE)” campaign.

Set Up Your ICE Contacts

In an emergency, emergency service personnel and hospital staff can then quickly contact your next of kin by dialing the number stored as “ICE.”

  1. Choose a trusted family member, partner or close friend as your emergency contact.
  2. Save the contact in your phone using the name ICE.
  3. For more than one contact, enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3.
  4. Tell your chosen contacts that their details are stored for emergencies.

Share the Idea

Please spread this information. It will not take too many shares before more people know about it. It really could save your life or put a loved one’s mind at rest.

Let’s spread the concept of ICE by storing an ICE number in our mobile phones today and sharing this information with our nearest and dearest.

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