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Seattle Breaking — Monday, November 4, 2024

Daily recap · 1215 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 1215 dispatches across the city on Monday, November 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 209 medical-aid responses, 110 traffic-related dispatches, and 49 fire-category calls, with 778 police calls and 0 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 16:00–17:00 local time, with 87 dispatches in that single hour. Among higher-severity incidents — structure fires, working fires, shootings, stabbings, robberies, and serious assaults — the feeds recorded 2 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
Fire49
Medical209
Traffic110
Police778
Rescue8
Other61
Total1215

By hour of day

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

0021
0126
0220
0318
0419
0543
0645
0759
0869
0953
1076
1178
1282
1368
1466
1576
1687
1763
1852
1930
2039
2150
2237
2338

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
Fremont19
Belltown58
Capitol Hill85
Downtown60
Pioneer Square32
Chinatown–International District45
First Hill27
University District42
Ballard40
Queen Anne30
Northgate25
West Seattle Junction19
Columbia City11
Elsewhere in Seattle688

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 1215 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Monday, November 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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