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Seattle Breaking — Saturday, July 11, 2026

Daily recap · 1256 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 1256 dispatches across the city on Saturday, July 11, 2026, 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 224 medical-aid responses, 170 traffic-related dispatches, and 48 fire-category calls, with 782 police calls and 2 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 20:00–21:00 local time, with 78 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
Fire48
Medical224
Traffic170
Police782
Hazmat2
Rescue4
Other26
Total1256

By hour of day

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

0053
0164
0255
0338
0429
0525
0624
0730
0850
0950
1052
1151
1260
1339
1459
1559
1652
1764
1861
1967
2078
2157
2278
2361

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 Union23
Fremont19
Belltown57
Capitol Hill111
Downtown60
Pioneer Square27
Chinatown–International District27
First Hill28
University District42
Ballard56
Queen Anne28
Northgate26
West Seattle Junction16
Columbia City14
Elsewhere in Seattle722

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 1256 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Saturday, July 11, 2026. 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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