Emergency - get help from your mobile

[loyalduke]

Message from the Ambulance Service

We all carry our mobile phones with names & numbers stored in its memory. If we were to be involved in an accident or were taken ill, the people attending us would have our mobile phone but wouldn't know who to call. Yes, there are hundreds of numbers stored but which one is the contact person in case of an emergency? Hence this 'ICE' (In Case of Emergency) Campaign.

The concept of 'ICE' is catching on quickly. It is a method of contact during emergency situations. As mobile phones are carried by the majority of the population, all you need to do is store the number of a contact person or persons who should be contacted during emergency under the name 'ICE' ( In Case Of Emergency).

The idea was thought up by a paramedic who found that when he went to the scenes of accidents there were always mobile phones with patients but they didn't know which number to call. He therefore thought that it would be a good idea if there was a nationally recognised name for this purpose. In an emergency situation, Emergency Service personnel and hospital Staff would be able to quickly contact the right person by simply dialling the number you have stored as 'ICE'.

Please forward this.

It won't take too many 'forwards' before everybody will know about this. It really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest.

For more than one contact name simply enter ICE1, ICE2 and ICE3 etc.

[kizz81]

sounds like a decent idea to me
hope it spreads ill put ice in my phone book hopefully never to be used but you never know i guess

[beast5680]

thats so last year ;)

[TDi90]

hes right, i heard this aaages ago!
R

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

This has been around for 2 or 3 years but it is still a damn good idea!

[lee celtic]

I havn't heard of it before ,sounds like a good idea :dance:

Unless vanilla ice turns up at the hospital :shock:

[madmatt]

its at least 3 years since I stored names as ice. If you have to dial emergency srvices froom a mobile use 112, it will connect you to the network with the most reception. not necessarily your own network, also its easier for them to trace your location from a 112 call

[Lee_D]

Nope - 112 is just the european emergency services number much like 911 is in the US. Just happens that the systems in the UK also recognise 112 as well as 999. Which ever you dial you still go through to the nearest mast which then dictates which counties emergency service on verbal request you get put through to... so for instance if the mast is just inside Wiggingshire but you call from 30 ft inside wobbleshire... just over the border for arguments sake, and ask for the police you will get automatically put through to Wiggingshire by the operators as that is the default - they have no idea where you are and only ask which service you require.

Fortunately this rarely comes up as an issue or as what we call a misrouted 999 (or 112 - it makes no difference to us!) and will result in a delay while Wigginshire Police pass the details to Wobbleshire police.

Please note :- The names of the Police forces have been changed to protect the innocent!  :lol:

[auf_wiedersehen_pet]

Please note :- The names of the Police forces have been changed to protect the innocent!  :lol:

No way! I was born in Wobbleshire!

 :P

[madmatt]

Lee you obviously know better so I'll stand corrected. the info I posted was stated on 2 seperate courses at work a first aid one ran by a large voluntry ambulance service. and a chainsaw course ran by the National prificency test council.

[Skibum346]

This was mentioned last year... but probably useful repeating it every now and then... mine is done.

Skibum

[Disco Matt]

The 112/999 thing does have other uses - apparently 112 will sometimes work where 999 doesn't (from a mobile).

[bravo669]

all useful stuff. blood type is also a useful one. ive got one of my old RAF dogtags on me keyring. its got name and blood group on it aswell as other stuff. known allergies too, especially drug allergies.

[defuzz]

The 112/999 thing does have other uses - apparently 112 will sometimes work where 999 doesn't (from a mobile).

This one definately is untrue, theres an email that goes around saying you can use 112 on your mobile even if there is no mobile signal, such as on the tube or in the middle of nowhere.

112 and 999 use exactly the same system to get through to the emergency services.

Both work on other networks, so if you are on orange and there is no signal, you can place a 999 or 112 call through whatever signal is available, but if there is no signal at all, you won't get through with either number.


the ice system is a good idea, mine are down as:

ICE1 DAD MOBILE
ICE2 DAD HOME
ICE3 BOB

etc etc

so if someone can't get through to the first choice, its clear who they should call next.

Unfortuantley on my phone I can't store dad's number under DAD and ICE1 DAD so when someone else uses my phone to find him, they can't as they're not expecting it under ICE, not too much of a problem thoguh.

[didirangerover]

On most mobiles you can store numbers under ICE and their name too. The ICE number is automatically stored as the first number in the phonebook too to save the emergency services having to trawl through your entire entourage of mates!

[age]

'They' certainly can tell where you are.  999'd for a burning van (no passengers!) couple of years ago - emerg services answered me by name and asked where I was, I said Farley Common Selsdon - they said "No - we know that, just need to know which end of the lane you are......!!!!! Ho hum..... A