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Seattle Breaking — Friday, July 25, 2025

Daily recap · 333 dispatches

Seattle's fire, medical, traffic, and police agencies cleared 333 dispatches across the city on Friday, July 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 226 medical-aid responses, 9 traffic-related dispatches, and 49 fire-category calls, with 0 police clearances and 0 hazardous-materials dispatches rounding out the picture.

The busiest hour citywide was 13:00–14:00 local time, with 20 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
Fire49
Medical226
Traffic9
Rescue8
Other41
Total333

By hour of day

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

0011
018
0211
0311
046
056
0616
0713
0818
0917
1011
1116
1215
1320
1418
158
1613
1716
1818
1920
2018
217
2218
2318

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 Seattle302

Map of the day's dispatches

333 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 333 dispatch records published by the Seattle Fire Department and the Seattle Police Department through the Seattle Open Data portal for Friday, July 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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