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Seattle Breaking — Wednesday, September 25, 2024

Daily recap · 1204 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 1204 dispatches across the city on Wednesday, September 25, 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 211 medical-aid responses, 115 traffic-related dispatches, and 55 fire-category calls, with 753 police calls and 0 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 12:00–13:00 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
Fire55
Medical211
Traffic115
Police753
Rescue10
Other60
Total1204

By hour of day

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

0039
0140
0230
0315
0419
0529
0645
0743
0857
0963
1074
1180
1282
1364
1466
1555
1653
1752
1865
1956
2051
2153
2247
2326

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
Fremont14
Belltown80
Capitol Hill72
Downtown61
Pioneer Square32
Chinatown–International District27
First Hill29
University District56
Ballard55
Queen Anne25
Northgate37
West Seattle Junction20
Columbia City11
Elsewhere in Seattle660

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 1204 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Wednesday, September 25, 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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