Ice

scruffy96uk

Not sure if this has been posted here before, alot of you might already have it.

I have numbers in my mobile phone under ICE (In Case of Emergency).
I had an email saying that if you have an accident etc that emergency services could look in your phone and call your ICE contact.

Hope this is of some use!!

Scruffy96uk

Purdy_1

I have my husbands number under his name and also under ICE. It is a small comfort knowing that if anything happened to me that they could contact him asap.

If you had a few numbers you wanted used in an emergency you could always put "husband" or "mother" etc. I think it could help to have more than one number for emergencies, just in case.

silvercar

I think ICE works better than "mother".

Firstly ICE is a specific instruction that emergency services recognise.

Second "mother" could be elderly and frail, not in a position to help only to be worried by a phonecall.

Purdy_1

What happens if ICE is not available? I know my husbands phone has no reception when he is at work. If you have a frail mother then dont use her number as an emergency number. Simple! Put someone elses number in and have a name that would easily be recognised in an emergency.

£Ronnie

All new to me, great idea, thanks scruffy

scruffy96uk

I have several in my phone under ICE1, ICE2 etc in order of who I would want to be contacted 1st

iwanttosave_2

I have the same as scruffy, ICE1, 2 3 so on

troll35

Slightly off thread but relevant. I have been told that if you want the emergency services and you are ringing from a mobile it's better to ring 112 rather than 999. This is because anyone ringing 112 triggers the sat nav type location of your mobile. Particularly good if you have no idea where you are when an emergency occurs.

I'm sure some kind sole out there will inform me if I am completely wrong.

Mikeyorks

troll35 wrote:

I have been told that if you want the emergency services and you are ringing from a mobile it's better to ring 112 rather than 999.

112 is the 'standard' emergency number across EU member states. It's intended to work across boundaries and prevent people getting confused if they're in a different country! So it is recommended to use that - but it should equally work from a fixed 'phone.

troll35 wrote:

This is because anyone ringing 112 triggers the sat nav type location of your mobile.

In this country 112 and 999 calls presumably finish in the same place? If either number is dialled from a mobile - it should be possible to do a geographical fix on it. But that latter bit is very much an opinion.

Bit of data on it here :-

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2143799/eu-calls-better-response

gingercordial

I heard about this after the Tube bombings (not that there was any mobile reception in London that day). I have ICE1 and 2 for my boyfriend and parents.

nikiyoung

I have also put a note into my phone (Nokia) under ice to say who I am and alergys Also the person who they are ringing's name.
HTH
Niki