Marcellus, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

CNY Signal logged 249 radio calls in Marcellus over the last 30 days, an average of 8.3 a day, and 506 calls over the last 90 days. That is 20th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

Most of what crosses the air in Marcellus is traffic we do not tag as EMS, Fire or Law: 41 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 19.5 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Marcellus from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 23.3 percent, Fire 11.6 percent and Law enforcement 24.1 percent.

Activity in Marcellus peaks across the middle of the day, at the 1 p.m. hour, which takes 8.1 percent of the last 90 days. Sunday is the busiest day of the week at 20.8 percent. Things are thinnest in the 2 a.m. hour. Weekends carry 32.8 percent of the Marcellus 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 Marcellus. Sorted by how often they come up, the ones most likely to cross a scanner there over the last 90 days are medical call (71), vehicle crash (41), domestic complaint (19), fire response (19) and hazardous condition (13).

Tune a scanner to Marcellus and most of what you hear is Sheriffs Office, which carried 116 of the calls we logged there over the last 90 days. Also on the air are Marcellus Police, Marcellus Fire Department and Marcellus Ambulance.

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 Marcellus rather than period over period trends.