Hastings, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

CNY Signal logged 86 radio calls in Hastings over the last 30 days, an average of 2.9 a day, and 197 calls over the last 90 days. That is 45th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

Most of what crosses the air in Hastings is traffic we do not tag as EMS, Fire or Law: 74.4 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 52.9 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Hastings from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 20.9 percent, Fire 3.5 percent and Law enforcement 1.2 percent.

The Hastings radio day runs late. Its heaviest hour is 5 p.m., holding 8.6 percent of everything logged over 90 days, and Monday carries the most of any weekday at 19.3 percent. Things are thinnest in the 5 a.m. hour. Weekends carry 31.5 percent of the Hastings total, above the 28.6 percent an evenly spread week would give, so Saturday and Sunday matter more here than in most of the county.

No single call type dominates Hastings. Sorted by how often they come up, the ones most likely to cross a scanner there over the last 90 days are medical call (31), domestic complaint (19), vehicle crash (11), disturbance (6) and larceny (5).

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 Hastings rather than period over period trends.