Hamilton, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

Hamilton is a quiet town on the scanner. We logged 43 radio calls there over the last 30 days, roughly 1.4 a day, and 94 across the last 90. That is 54th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

Most of what crosses the air in Hamilton is traffic we do not tag as EMS, Fire or Law: 51.2 percent of the last 30 days, against 21.5 percent regionally. That is typically unit to unit and dispatch chatter rather than a distinct incident type. The 29.7 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Hamilton from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 34.9 percent, Fire 14 percent and Law enforcement none logged.

Activity in Hamilton peaks across the middle of the day, at the 2 p.m. hour, which takes 9.6 percent of the last 90 days. Wednesday is the busiest day of the week at 20.2 percent. Things are thinnest in the 10 p.m. hour.

One call type carries Hamilton more than the rest: medical call, 30 times in 90 days, or 41.7 percent of everything we could classify there. Behind it come fire alarm (13), alarm (10), fire response (4) and lift assist (2).

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 Hamilton rather than period over period trends.