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Seattle Breaking — Wednesday, June 26, 2024

Daily recap · 1337 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 1337 dispatches across the city on Wednesday, June 26, 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 265 medical-aid responses, 141 traffic-related dispatches, and 63 fire-category calls, with 827 police calls and 0 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 15:00–16:00 local time, with 90 dispatches in that single hour. Among higher-severity incidents — structure fires, working fires, shootings, stabbings, robberies, and serious assaults — the feeds recorded 3 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

By category

CategoryDispatches
Fire63
Medical265
Traffic141
Police827
Rescue3
Other38
Total1337

By hour of day

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

0038
0129
0229
0323
0419
0525
0634
0752
0871
0979
1086
1174
1273
1376
1472
1590
1659
1783
1865
1959
2055
2149
2244
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 Union25
Fremont22
Belltown88
Capitol Hill78
Downtown66
Pioneer Square24
Chinatown–International District53
First Hill42
University District49
Ballard44
Queen Anne29
Northgate24
West Seattle Junction10
Columbia City12
Elsewhere in Seattle771

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 1337 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Wednesday, June 26, 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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