Mattydale, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

Mattydale is a quiet town on the scanner. We logged 37 radio calls there over the last 30 days, roughly 1.2 a day, and 79 across the last 90. That is 58th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

Most of what crosses the air in Mattydale is traffic we do not tag as EMS, Fire or Law: 62.2 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 40.7 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Mattydale from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 24.3 percent, Fire 13.5 percent and Law enforcement none logged.

The Mattydale radio day runs late. Its heaviest hour is 7 p.m., holding 11.4 percent of everything logged over 90 days, and Monday carries the most of any weekday at 20.3 percent. Things are thinnest in the 9 a.m. hour. Weekends account for only 22.8 percent of the Mattydale total against the 28.6 percent an even week would give, making this a weekday heavy town.

One call type carries Mattydale more than the rest: medical call, 16 times in 90 days, or 30.8 percent of everything we could classify there. Behind it come fire response (6), fire alarm (5), suspicious activity (4) and vehicle crash (4).

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 Mattydale rather than period over period trends.