Skaneateles, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

CNY Signal logged 240 radio calls in Skaneateles over the last 30 days, an average of 8 a day, and 632 calls over the last 90 days. That is 21st out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

On the radio, Skaneateles is a law enforcement town. Police traffic is 42.1 percent of everything logged there over the last 30 days, against 12.2 percent across the region. The 29.9 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Skaneateles from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 9.2 percent, Fire 18.3 percent and General radio traffic 30.4 percent.

The Skaneateles radio day starts early. The 9 a.m. hour is the single busiest, at 7.4 percent of the last 90 days, and Tuesday leads the week at 17.9 percent. Things are thinnest in the 1 a.m. hour.

No single call type dominates Skaneateles. Sorted by how often they come up, the ones most likely to cross a scanner there over the last 90 days are vehicle crash (105), medical call (47), fire alarm (37), fire response (32) and hazardous condition (25).

Tune a scanner to Skaneateles and most of what you hear is Skaneateles Police, which carried 149 of the calls we logged there over the last 90 days. Also on the air are Sheriffs Office, Skaneateles Fire Department and SAVES 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 Skaneateles rather than period over period trends.