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http://www.eastanglianambulance.com/...ce/default.asp




Following the disaster in London . . .


East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of
Emergency ( ICE ) " campaign with the support of Falklands war hero Simon
Weston.

The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone address
book, and against it enter the number of the person you would want to be
contacted "In Case of Emergency".

In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be able
to
quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact them.
It's
so simple that everyone can do it. Please do.

Please will you also email this to everybody in your address book, 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.


While the basic idea here is a good one, press reports have already made it
clear that the mother-tongue of many people travelling on London Transport
etc. is not English. It would therefore be wide to adopt a more universally
recognised emergency identifier than 'ICE'. The obvious solution is 'SOS',
which is already unambiguously familiar the world over as it dates from the
days of Morse Code telegraphy...

Regards,

- Alan (in polyglot Brussels)