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  • From: "Jorene Downs" <Jorene@CEOates.com>
  • To: "Mounted search and rescue" <msar-riders@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [MSAR] "ICE" for Rescuers
  • Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 12:35:22 -0700

All SAR personnel should already have an emergency contact on file with their team / agency.

The primary disadvantage to not making private numbers available is when you're in an environment where you are not known. At that emergency / disaster the First Responder agency has no way to contact your family unless you carry documentation on your person that hasn't been compromised by the incident.

ICE is now being rolled out nationwide, with LE and Fire being trained to look for ICE-XXX as the In Case of Emergency optional entry in the cell phone / electronic contact database.

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Jorene Downs
Tulare Co SAR - Hasty Team ICP Team
www.ceoates.com/sar
Tulare-Kings CERT
www.tk-cert.org


----- Original Message ----- From: "Una Smith" <una.smith@att.net>

After posting this morning, I thought about it some more and
now I am considering concealing the personal numbers recorded
on my cell phone, precisely so that responders on scene cannot
contact my family. If I am the one needing emergency help, I
do not want my family to be contacted until the emergency is
all over. There would be nothing for them to do, except panic.
My SAR teammates know this...but probably I should mention it
to them all again.

This has been my practice for over 20 years now, ever since
I called my mother when she knew I was overseas. She totally
freaked out, thinking something terrible must have happened.

Una Smith
New Mexico






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