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Hey Y’all,
I just got this in an e-mail from a freind of mine, I kind of think it is a good idea. It just so happens that a short time back my brother managed to get himself sent to the hospital. The only number in his cell phone that he had entered as a full name was mine. The hospital called me first! (Big deal really, I was a thousand miles away) But it did help to get the ball rolling towards putting some of his personal things in order for us. Here is a copy and paste of the E-Mail
This is worthwhile, because you never know!
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> In an emergency situation, 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.
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> 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.
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> Paramedics know what ICE means and they look for it immediately. ICE your
> cell phone NOW! ? Please pass this one along! ? ? ?
>I hope that you never need it, but with so much memory on a cell phone what could it hurt?
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