Otisco, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

Otisco is a quiet town on the scanner. We logged 28 radio calls there over the last 30 days, roughly 0.9 a day, and 81 across the last 90. That is 65th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

On the radio, Otisco is a law enforcement town. Police traffic is 60.7 percent of everything logged there over the last 30 days, against 12.2 percent across the region. The 48.5 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Otisco from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 10.7 percent, Fire 14.3 percent and General radio traffic 14.3 percent.

Otisco is unusual in when it gets busy: the 4 a.m. hour is its heaviest, carrying 9.9 percent of the last 90 days, and Friday is the busiest day at 19.8 percent. Things are thinnest in the 2 a.m. hour.

Tune a scanner to Otisco and most of what you hear is Sheriffs Office, which carried 38 of the calls we logged there over the last 90 days. Also on the air are New York State Police, Amber Fire Department and Otisco Fire Department.

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 Otisco rather than period over period trends.