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Seattle Breaking — Saturday, November 11, 2023

Daily recap · 1185 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 1185 dispatches across the city on Saturday, November 11, 2023, 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 216 medical-aid responses, 124 traffic-related dispatches, and 47 fire-category calls, with 740 police calls and 2 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 23:00–00:00 local time, with 72 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 is refreshed about once a day, so recent days may still be filling in.

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

CategoryDispatches
Fire47
Medical216
Traffic124
Police740
Hazmat2
Rescue8
Other48
Total1185

By hour of day

All hours are in Pacific time. Bars are scaled to the day's busiest hour.

0055
0141
0239
0327
0434
0528
0645
0738
0847
0957
1055
1149
1250
1360
1442
1564
1648
1746
1849
1970
2057
2160
2252
2372

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.

AreaDispatches
South Lake Union30
Fremont18
Belltown62
Capitol Hill91
Downtown65
Pioneer Square34
Chinatown–International District17
First Hill22
University District41
Ballard42
Queen Anne23
Northgate36
West Seattle Junction13
Columbia City13
Elsewhere in Seattle678

Map of the day's dispatches

400 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 1185 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Saturday, November 11, 2023. Fire records publish within minutes of dispatch; police records are refreshed by the city about once a day, so on very recent days the police count may be incomplete until the next refresh. "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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