Observed arrival · 2026-09-25
PDX Signal, a Portland dispatch observatory
A Portland-focused dashboard for exploring public police and fire dispatch records by time, call category, approximate location, and neighborhood.
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- Portland residents examining public-safety activity
- Worth noticing
- The timeline tracks when records were published, not responder locations or an active response.
Field notes
The homepage describes views by hour, weekday, call type, and area, alongside recorded response-time variation. It says City data is collected twice hourly, but also reports that the scheduled collector has not published its first snapshot; the captured interface shows zero records and a loading archive. Locations are approximate, and the page frames the data as dispatch workload rather than a live emergency feed.
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