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Seattle Breaking — Wednesday, June 12, 2024

Daily recap · 1275 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 1275 dispatches across the city on Wednesday, June 12, 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 240 medical-aid responses, 154 traffic-related dispatches, and 37 fire-category calls, with 793 police calls and 0 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 16:00–17:00 local time, with 82 dispatches in that single hour. Among higher-severity incidents — structure fires, working fires, shootings, stabbings, robberies, and serious assaults — the feeds recorded 1 event, 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

By category

CategoryDispatches
Fire37
Medical240
Traffic154
Police793
Rescue7
Other44
Total1275

By hour of day

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

0042
0129
0225
0324
0423
0529
0630
0736
0874
0975
1079
1175
1265
1357
1458
1562
1682
1772
1873
1957
2060
2154
2241
2353

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 Union28
Fremont9
Belltown73
Capitol Hill69
Downtown78
Pioneer Square31
Chinatown–International District45
First Hill39
University District47
Ballard39
Queen Anne33
Northgate30
West Seattle Junction18
Columbia City6
Elsewhere in Seattle730

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 1275 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Wednesday, June 12, 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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