Seattle Breaking — Thursday, October 20, 2022
Daily recap · 306 dispatches
Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 306 dispatches across the city on Thursday, October 20, 2022, according to the Seattle Open Data feeds published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department. The day's activity was led by 208 medical-aid responses, 7 traffic-related dispatches, and 35 fire-category calls, with 0 police clearances and 0 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.
The busiest hour citywide was 14:00–15:00 local time, with 22 dispatches in that single hour. Among higher-severity incidents — structure fires, working fires, shootings, stabbings, robberies, and serious assaults — the feeds recorded 0 events, listed below. As elsewhere on this site, these counts reflect what agencies published rather than what was reported to 911, and the police data in particular publishes only after each call is cleared and may continue to settle as more clearances post.
Notable incidents
No incidents on this day were flagged as high-severity by our scoring. A quiet day on the high-severity side does not mean a quiet day overall — most dispatch activity is low-severity aid and traffic calls. See the breakdowns below for the day's full picture.
By category
| Category | Dispatches |
|---|---|
| Fire | 35 |
| Medical | 208 |
| Traffic | 7 |
| Rescue | 4 |
| Other | 52 |
| Total | 306 |
By hour of day
All hours are in Pacific time. Bars are scaled to the day's busiest hour.
By neighborhood
Dispatches inside the bounding boxes used by our neighborhood feeds, plus a count for everywhere else in the city. Smaller neighborhoods produce smaller counts; this is a function of population and land use, not a measure of safety. For the longer reasoning, see neighborhood dispatch patterns.
| Area | Dispatches |
|---|---|
| South Lake Union | 9 |
| Fremont | 3 |
| Belltown | 20 |
| Elsewhere in Seattle | 274 |
Map of the day's dispatches
306 of the day's dispatches had usable coordinates. Pin colors match the category legend used elsewhere on the site.
About this recap
This page summarizes 306 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Thursday, October 20, 2022. Fire records publish within minutes of dispatch; police records publish only after the responding officer files a clearance code, which typically lags the actual event by several hours, so on very recent days a police count may climb as more clearances post. "Notable" is a simple severity flag based on call-type strings (structure fires, working fires, shootings, stabbings, robberies, assaults, hazmat). Counts are exact for what the feeds published; the category mapping into fire / medical / traffic / police / hazmat is our own and documented on the How It Works page.
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