This is a great idea!!!

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!

 

I agree. I got the ICE information in an email, and sent it off to all my friends and family.

Sure hope the paramedics get the memo...

 

I did not know that. Thanks for the great tip!

 

Yes, a good idea....just entered info in my cell phone

If my S spin-out 2 weeks ago on I-76 had turned out differently, the paramedics could have been looking for info on my cell phone

 

When my daughter in law had an accident, she suffered a concussion and was not conscious at the scene. The police called my son after scrolling through the names on her cell phone. I think they just went with the first number they found, or maybe she had it programmed as "home."

Cell phones can be handy things to have around. The I.C.E. idea is not a bad one.

 

Like anything that sounds good like this, I had to check SNOPES.COM, and this one actually checks out as true. They had this addendum though:

[QUOTE]Quickly following on the heels of advisories to add "ICE" entries to mobile phones were hoax warnings that doing so would trigger premium charges thanks to malicious text messages or viruses randomly sent to phones to scan for such entries:
To all those who received a copy of the e-mail recommending that the word ICE be added to their phones address book (In case of emergency contact). I can not say for sure that information I have received this morning is legitimate, but better to warn you all.

I am very sorry to report that some small minded idiot has created a text message that is being sent out randomly to mobile phone users, this text has a programme included that searches your phones address book for the word "ICE" or "I.C.E" and if found, you are charged for a premium rate message.

It is a real shame that this sort of abuse happens, could I please ask all of you that have added ICE to your phone address book to remove it immediately. I am very sorry for any inconvenience this might cause.


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You know the email that's gone round saying put ICE then a contact number in case of emergency? Well don't do it cos....

Be very careful with this one - although the intention is great it is unfortunately phase one of a phone based virus that is laying a path for propagating very quickly. Passing it on is part of the virus interestingly, such is the deviousness of the people who write these things.

We have already seen the "second phase" where a program is sent as part of a ring-tone download that goes into your address book and looks for something it recognises - you've guessed it, an address book entry marked "ICE or I.C.E." or whatever. It then sends itself to the "ICE list", charging you for the privilege.
These warnings are hoaxes: no such danger exists. As the East Anglian Ambulance service noted on their web site:
Email hoaxers are threatening a campaign to encourage people to store contact details in their mobile phones.

The ICE (In Case of Emergency) scheme gained widespread coverage in the wake of Thursday

 

Oh Mr Computer Maven and SnopesFan-

So........should we have any fear of ICING our address book? If there is any risk, it would not be hard to change the ICE address by adding some other characters between the 3 letters.

 

You must have missed this part:

Putting the ICE entry into your phonebook carries no known risk at this time.

Jonas

 

This is great info. I make a point to carry my cell phone everywhere for this reason. I also carry non-electronic contact information. This is particularly important when the electronics are subject to damage rendering them useless. Things like a fall on skis, car or bicycle crash, etc. can clobber a cell phone. In fact, I smashed a cell phone falling on a hike two weeks ago. Luckily the damage was limited to the phone and a scraped knee and finger.