Camillus, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

CNY Signal logged 1,009 radio calls in Camillus over the last 30 days, an average of 33.6 a day, and 2,364 calls over the last 90 days. That is 10th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

On the radio, Camillus is a law enforcement town. Police traffic is 52.7 percent of everything logged there over the last 30 days, against 12.2 percent across the region. The 40.5 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Camillus from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 11.8 percent, Fire 6.1 percent and General radio traffic 29.3 percent.

The Camillus radio day starts early. The 9 a.m. hour is the single busiest, at 6.9 percent of the last 90 days, and Tuesday leads the week at 16.5 percent. Things are thinnest in the 1 a.m. hour.

No single call type dominates Camillus. Sorted by how often they come up, the ones most likely to cross a scanner there over the last 90 days are traffic complaint (355), vehicle crash (232), medical call (182), assist (110) and animal complaint (75).

Tune a scanner to Camillus and most of what you hear is Camillus Police, which carried 1,297 of the calls we logged there over the last 90 days. Also on the air are Fairmount Fire Department, WAVES Ambulance and Sheriffs Office.

Counted from the CNY Signal scanner archive, not an agency call log. Volume tracks how much of the time our receivers were up as well as real activity, so we publish shares, peaks and rankings for Camillus rather than period over period trends.