Have You ICE’d Your Phone
By: Sheriff Mike Scott, Lee County
Sheriff’s Office
Have
you ICE’d your cell phone? No, I’m not asking if you have cooled your phone down
during these hot days of summer, but if you have added your “In Case of Emergency”,
ICE, information to your cell phone.
The Lee County Sheriff’s Office
along with McKibbon Hotel Management representing Hilton Garden Inn, Courtyard,
Resident’s Inn and SpringHill Suites and the entire first responder community are encouraging everyone to ICE Your Phone.
It is simple:
1.
Select an
emergency contact
2.
Add them to
your address book as ICE1-Mom, ICE1-Dad, ICE1-Wife, etc.
3.
Provide your
emergency contact with your MAD (Medications, Allergies, and Doctors) information
You might even want to add a second
ICE contact in case your first contact cannot be reached; this second contact can
be named as your ICE2-Mom, ICE2-Dad, etc.
To make this even simpler we have
developed a MAD form for you to complete and give to your emergency contact; there
is a link to this form below on our website, www.sheriffleefl.org or call our Community
Relations division. Please feel free to copy as many of these as you need and encourage
your family and friends to ICE their phones. As an added safety measure you can
place a copy in your wallet and in your glove box.
Unfortunately the person involved
in a serious car crash or other emergency is not always able to communicate the
lifesaving information needed by the first responders; by adding ICE to your phone
the life you save could be your own.
Too many times we have rolled
up on a scene and have spent countless minutes searching for emergency contact information
and one of the first places we look is in cell phones. You can even place
an ICE Sticker on the back of your cell phone alerting all first responders that
you have prepared emergency contact information ahead of time and it can be found
by looking for ICE in your cell phone.
To learn more about the ICE Your Phone
program or get an ICE Sticker for your cell phone you can contact our Community Relations
division at 477-1477 or email them at
CommunityRelations@sheriffleefl.org.
Download the MAD form.
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