Solvay, NY: Police, Fire & EMS Scanner Activity

CNY Signal logged 429 radio calls in Solvay over the last 30 days, an average of 14.3 a day, and 1,251 calls over the last 90 days. That is 16th out of the 69 Central New York municipalities we currently cover.

On the radio, Solvay is a law enforcement town. Police traffic is 45.2 percent of everything logged there over the last 30 days, against 12.2 percent across the region. The 33 point gap above the Central New York average is one of the things that separates Solvay from its neighbors. The rest of the mix runs EMS 11.7 percent, Fire 11 percent and General radio traffic 32.2 percent.

Activity in Solvay peaks across the middle of the day, at the 12 p.m. hour, which takes 5.7 percent of the last 90 days. Monday is the busiest day of the week at 17.2 percent. Things are thinnest in the 12 a.m. hour.

No single call type dominates Solvay. Sorted by how often they come up, the ones most likely to cross a scanner there over the last 90 days are vehicle complaint (131), medical call (98), assist (75), domestic complaint (66) and traffic complaint (57).

Tune a scanner to Solvay and most of what you hear is Solvay Police, which carried 598 of the calls we logged there over the last 90 days. Also on the air are Geddes Police, Solvay 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 Solvay rather than period over period trends.