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Seattle Breaking — Thursday, November 28, 2024

Daily recap · 896 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 896 dispatches across the city on Thursday, November 28, 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 204 medical-aid responses, 50 traffic-related dispatches, and 50 fire-category calls, with 521 police calls and 0 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 13:00–14:00 local time, with 52 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
Fire50
Medical204
Traffic50
Police521
Rescue12
Other59
Total896

By hour of day

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

0031
0134
0231
0322
0415
0515
0626
0727
0842
0940
1038
1143
1245
1352
1445
1546
1642
1734
1838
1950
2050
2147
2239
2344

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 Union20
Fremont14
Belltown71
Capitol Hill65
Downtown48
Pioneer Square26
Chinatown–International District48
First Hill34
University District19
Ballard30
Queen Anne25
Northgate19
West Seattle Junction21
Columbia City6
Elsewhere in Seattle450

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 896 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Thursday, November 28, 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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