If you're ever in an accident or have a medical emergency it is important for authorities to have an easily accessed emergency contact number so your love ones can be reached. Given that many of us ...

Everybody's got a go-to in case of emergency (ICE) contact, but emergencies have a nasty habit of not caring whether your ICE contact is available to pick up the phone. Reader snappingleather's clever ...

Reverse 911 systems give public safety and law enforcement agencies a viable option for alerting the public in times of impending danger. Where a neighborhood previously might have heard of an escaped ...

Before the 1960s, the United States didn’t have one universal phone number for Americans to call if they needed help from the police or fire department. Callers simply had to know the phone number for ...