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Monday, June 13, 2005

A good idea

Help out in a crisis-with ICE

The idea is to enter a number of the person you'd like to be contacted if you were unable to tell paramedics or other emergency services into your mobile phone under the name 'ICE'--short for 'In Case of Emergency'. This initiative was started by a Cambridge-based paramedic and it's an excellent idea, given the number of people who carry cell phones. I suspect this idea will spread as other emergency services pick it up and it wends it's way through Internet lists and websites like mine. :)

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