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Seattle Breaking — Monday, March 4, 2024

Daily recap · 1213 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 1213 dispatches across the city on Monday, March 4, 2024, 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 249 medical-aid responses, 94 traffic-related dispatches, and 40 fire-category calls, with 767 police calls and 0 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 11:00–12:00 local time, with 76 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
Fire40
Medical249
Traffic94
Police767
Rescue4
Other59
Total1213

By hour of day

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

0038
0135
0231
0324
0425
0528
0646
0748
0860
0967
1073
1176
1269
1365
1466
1569
1653
1764
1853
1942
2056
2146
2247
2332

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 Union34
Fremont18
Belltown64
Capitol Hill68
Downtown57
Pioneer Square35
Chinatown–International District41
First Hill35
University District37
Ballard38
Queen Anne35
Northgate27
West Seattle Junction17
Columbia City12
Elsewhere in Seattle695

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 1213 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Monday, March 4, 2024. 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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