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Besides being frozen water, ICE means In Case of Emergency. This new program could be very helpful to you if you carry a cell phone. It was created by a paramedic from the UK. Many emergency first responders in the U.S. have been trained to look for ICE on your cell phone contact list. More will be aware of it in the near future. Adding this to your cell phone is quite simple, actually. Just add ICE next to the names of the person or persons you would like contacted in case of an emergency. For example: ICE-1 Bob, ICE-2 Mom, or ICE-3 Doctor. Besides notifying your loved ones in case of an accident or other health problem, the emergency personnel can also contact someone that can help with medical decisions on your behalf. The way I did it on my cell phone was to leave my present contacts the way they were and added new ICE contacts with their cell numbers as the first visible number. There is also a web site that sells stickers for the back of your phone to alert emergency workers if you choose. By the way, ignore emails warning that adding ICE to your cell phone makes it vulnerable to viruses. This is a hoax. No such viruses exist.