America’s 9-1-1 professionals are among the first responders and local heroes being celebrated this week as the convenience and fuel retailing industry unites in the third annual 24/7 Day event on Saturday, July 24.

NENA: The 9-1-1 Association is partnering with the NACS Foundation and American Red Cross in the annual national event, which recognizes first responders, medical personnel, and American Red Cross volunteers who work around the clock, 24/7, serving our communities to ensure we do not face emergencies alone.

This Saturday, at more than 700+ convenience store locations operated by Allsup’s, Coen Markets, Garrett’s Family Market, Loop Neighborhood Market, Rapid Refill, Sprint Food Stores, St. Romain Oil Company, The Hub Convenience Stores, The Irving, Turkey Hill, TXB, and Yesway, uniformed or badged 9-1-1 professionals are among those who will be able to get a free coffee, fountain drink, or snack as a way of saying "thank you" for their invaluable, courageous public service.

NENA members are encouraged to visit one of these stores on Saturday, take photos of themselves enjoying their free benefit, and post them to Facebook or Twitter with the hashtags #247Day, #ThankYou911, and #WeHeartHeroes.

Click here to read more and find participating stores in your area. 

At NENA 2021, you will not only hear about the public safety issues of today and tomorrow, but also gain practical, real-world know-how that you can take home with you and put into action immediately. Featuring inspiring keynote speakers, more than 90 hours of breakout sessions that inform and empower, career-building courses and workshops with real-world applications, nightly networking events that help you make the right connections, and an Expo Hall showcasing cutting-edge products and services, NENA 2021 is the must-attend event of the year. Don’t miss your chance to be a part of it!

Click here to register. A digital copy of the event brochure is available here.

Don't Forget to Register for the Run for 9-1-1, too! 
Lace up your running or walking shoes in support of 9-1-1 training and wellness programs on Saturday, July 24, and participate in the 7th Annual "Run for 9-1-1" Charity 5K in Columbus, Ohio!

The run/walk promotes healthy living among 9-1-1 professionals, gives the greater Columbus community, and supporters from around the country, a chance to say "thank you" to 9-1-1, and generates funds for scholarships and 9-1-1 training opportunities. Click here to register.

The Emergency Incident Data Object (EIDO) is the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object that contains incident and related information intended to be passed between Functional Elements (FEs) for the stated purpose of processing emergency incidents, such as for use with systems handling 9‑1‑1 calls. EIDO itself constitutes a comprehensive mechanism for passing needed critical information fields between FEs and subsequently incident processing stakeholders. Without an equally reliable method of transport, EIDOs would be left stranded inside proprietary boxes or on disparate islands. It is the purpose of the Standard for the Conveyance of Emergency Incident Data Objects to define a transport model for the secure, verified, and reliable delivery of EIDOs, both during the processing of emergency calls and thereafter. This version of EIDO Conveyance provides for a model of subscribers and notifiers that supports optional settings and filters used to set flow characteristics or limit notifications associated with incidents in which the subscriber is interested. EIDO Conveyance also provides a mechanism for on-demand requests for incident data.

Interested parties may download the NENA Standard for the Conveyance of Emergency Incident Data Objects (EIDOs) between Next Generation (NG9-1-1) Systems and Applications and submit comments by going here and then selecting "Add a Comment" from the "Document Actions" icon. Please complete all requested data and "Save" OR if submitting multiple comments, selecting "Save and Add Another."

If you are providing editorial comments, such as corrections to typos, grammatical errors, style/numbering errors, and incorrect references/links to documents, please document them under one comment and list the page and line number for each. For example:

• Page 22, Line 761: correct muse to most
• Page 51, Line 905: correct Maine to main
• If the correction is within a table, provide the table name and page number of error and specific details of change

All comments are due by August 2, 2021. You may contact the NENA Committee Resource Manager with any questions or concerns.

i3v3 Accelerates the Drive Toward 21st-Century 9-1-1 Services

On July 12, NENA released a landmark new version of its Next Generation 9-1-1 standard, a move that will accelerate the transition to smarter, faster, and more resilient emergency response. Version 3 of NENA's i3 Standard for Next Generation 9-1-1 includes key updates to NG9-1-1 infrastructure, paving the way for interoperability on a national and international scale.

"This is a landmark moment in the evolution of NG9-1-1," said Gary Bell, ENP, President of NENA. "The public-safety community and the tech industry now have the most up-to-date, comprehensive, consensus-driven, open standard for NG9-1-1. This will no doubt hasten and strengthen our push to see NG9-1-1 systems, services, and products deployed coast to coast."

The new version will serve as the foundation of a 21st Century, broadband-based 9-1-1 ecosystem. Version 3 changes include:

• New REST/JSON architecture, following modern best practices for interface design;
• Cybersecurity improvements;
• Major updates to call bridging;
• Discrepancy Reports;
• Outgoing Call Interface Function;
• Blind transfer support;
• Updates to handle novel call types (including non-interactive calls and Advanced Automatic Crash Notifications); and
• Harmonization with European specifications.

Click here to read more.