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Seattle Breaking — Sunday, December 7, 2025

Daily recap · 259 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 259 dispatches across the city on Sunday, December 7, 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 183 medical-aid responses, 4 traffic-related dispatches, and 31 fire-category calls, with 0 police clearances and 0 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 19:00–20:00 local time, with 24 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
Fire31
Medical183
Traffic4
Rescue7
Other34
Total259

By hour of day

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

006
019
0210
034
047
059
0611
074
0812
0911
1012
1113
1212
1312
1418
157
1611
1710
1818
1924
2016
2110
226
237

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 Union10
Fremont4
Belltown17
Elsewhere in Seattle228

Map of the day's dispatches

259 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 259 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Sunday, December 7, 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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