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Seattle Breaking — Thursday, November 7, 2024

Daily recap · 1225 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 1225 dispatches across the city on Thursday, November 7, 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 222 medical-aid responses, 121 traffic-related dispatches, and 45 fire-category calls, with 765 police calls and 0 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 12:00–13:00 local time, with 93 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
Fire45
Medical222
Traffic121
Police765
Rescue5
Other67
Total1225

By hour of day

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

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0126
0225
0322
0431
0537
0635
0756
0849
0978
1076
1185
1293
1375
1469
1564
1648
1744
1847
1952
2045
2156
2246
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 Union18
Fremont20
Belltown65
Capitol Hill71
Downtown61
Pioneer Square13
Chinatown–International District48
First Hill30
University District52
Ballard36
Queen Anne24
Northgate23
West Seattle Junction15
Columbia City21
Elsewhere in Seattle728

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 1225 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Thursday, November 7, 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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