Salina, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

CNY Signal logged 1,520 radio calls in Salina over the last 30 days, an average of 50.7 a day, and 3,673 calls over the last 90 days. That is 7th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

On the radio, Salina is a law enforcement town. Police traffic is 41.4 percent of everything logged there over the last 30 days, against 12.2 percent across the region. The 29.2 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Salina from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 15.1 percent, Fire 6.9 percent and General radio traffic 36.6 percent.

Activity in Salina peaks across the middle of the day, at the 12 p.m. hour, which takes 5.8 percent of the last 90 days. Thursday is the busiest day of the week at 16.8 percent. Things are thinnest in the 1 a.m. hour.

No single call type dominates Salina. Sorted by how often they come up, the ones most likely to cross a scanner there over the last 90 days are vehicle crash (343), medical call (342), domestic complaint (226), assist (164) and traffic stop (124).

Tune a scanner to Salina and most of what you hear is Sheriffs Office, which carried 1,420 of the calls we logged there over the last 90 days. Also on the air are New York State Police, Liverpool Fire Department and AMR 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 Salina rather than period over period trends.