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Seattle Breaking — Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Daily recap · 1309 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 1309 dispatches across the city on Tuesday, June 18, 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 236 medical-aid responses, 132 traffic-related dispatches, and 35 fire-category calls, with 848 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
Fire35
Medical236
Traffic132
Police848
Rescue5
Other53
Total1309

By hour of day

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

0039
0126
0220
0329
0416
0530
0645
0753
0862
0962
1076
1166
1278
1373
1471
1578
1682
1770
1850
1968
2065
2160
2251
2339

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 Union35
Fremont20
Belltown81
Capitol Hill64
Downtown86
Pioneer Square34
Chinatown–International District37
First Hill37
University District48
Ballard47
Queen Anne37
Northgate32
West Seattle Junction9
Columbia City12
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 1309 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Tuesday, June 18, 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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