Calls to emergency dispatchers dropped off Sunday as people gathered around televisions to watch Super Bowl XLIX, according to SNOPAC, the emergency dispatch center for Everett and much of unincorporated Snohomish County.
911 calls were about 20 percent off the pace of the previous Sunday afternoon during the hours the game was played. They then shot up by 52 percent in the two hours afterwards, according to Kurt Mills, SNOPAC’s executive director.
SNOPAC provided the hour-by-hour breakdown in the attached chart.
The game’s effect was less pronounced compared with 2014, when the Seahawks won the Super Bowl. That year, there was an 81 percent spike in 911 calls in the two hours after the game.
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