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Seattle Breaking — Monday, October 26, 2026

Daily recap · 335 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 335 dispatches across the city on Monday, October 26, 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 229 medical-aid responses, 4 traffic-related dispatches, and 49 fire-category calls, with 0 police calls and 3 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 10:00–11:00 local time, with 30 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 is refreshed about once a day, so recent days may still be filling in.

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
Fire49
Medical229
Traffic4
Hazmat3
Rescue7
Other43
Total335

By hour of day

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

006
015
026
0312
047
0511
0611
079
0810
0914
1030
1114
1218
1314
1414
1524
1618
1723
1824
1912
208
2114
2220
2311

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 Union11
Fremont4
Belltown27
Capitol Hill21
Downtown13
Pioneer Square11
Chinatown–International District18
First Hill14
University District11
Ballard14
Queen Anne10
Northgate9
West Seattle Junction5
Columbia City7
Elsewhere in Seattle160

Map of the day's dispatches

335 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 335 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Monday, October 26, 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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