Sandy Creek, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

Sandy Creek is a quiet town on the scanner. We logged 68 radio calls there over the last 30 days, roughly 2.3 a day, and 108 across the last 90. That is 49th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

Most of what crosses the air in Sandy Creek is traffic we do not tag as EMS, Fire or Law: 66.2 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 44.7 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Sandy Creek from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 25 percent, Fire 7.4 percent and Law enforcement 1.5 percent.

Activity in Sandy Creek peaks across the middle of the day, at the 2 p.m. hour, which takes 10.2 percent of the last 90 days. Sunday is the busiest day of the week at 21.3 percent. Things are thinnest in the 3 a.m. hour. Weekends carry 38 percent of the Sandy Creek 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.

One call type carries Sandy Creek more than the rest: medical call, 23 times in 90 days, or 41.1 percent of everything we could classify there. Behind it come fire response (6), disturbance (5), alarm (3) and traffic stop (3).

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 Sandy Creek rather than period over period trends.