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Seattle Breaking — Tuesday, November 25, 2025

Daily recap · 328 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 328 dispatches across the city on Tuesday, November 25, 2025, 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 223 medical-aid responses, 8 traffic-related dispatches, and 36 fire-category calls, with 0 police clearances and 0 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 17:00–18:00 local time, with 26 dispatches in that single hour. Among higher-severity incidents — structure fires, working fires, shootings, stabbings, robberies, and serious assaults — the feeds recorded 0 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 publishes only after each call is cleared and may continue to settle as more clearances post.

Notable incidents

No incidents on this day were flagged as high-severity by our scoring. A quiet day on the high-severity side does not mean a quiet day overall — most dispatch activity is low-severity aid and traffic calls. See the breakdowns below for the day's full picture.

By category

CategoryDispatches
Fire36
Medical223
Traffic8
Rescue9
Other52
Total328

By hour of day

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

008
0111
027
038
0412
057
067
077
0813
0916
1011
1121
1220
1321
146
1518
1622
1726
1815
1916
2010
2115
2215
2316

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 Union17
Fremont5
Belltown26
Elsewhere in Seattle280

Map of the day's dispatches

328 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 328 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Tuesday, November 25, 2025. Fire records publish within minutes of dispatch; police records publish only after the responding officer files a clearance code, which typically lags the actual event by several hours, so on very recent days a police count may climb as more clearances post. "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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