Emergencies in Huge cities

[MayorEmir 0]

In Simcity 4,you can bearly make an emergency every second,but I was wondering,How many emergencies accour in Huge cities in real life?

In Emergencies similar to:Metro crash,car fire,building fire,bomb explosion,police chase,bank robbery etc.

Example in New York:Accidents accour every day,but huge accidents like bomb threads,huge fires etc. accour once a year,but that is all in the Global Media(Witch displays big accidents) like CNN.

I was wondering do accidents like police chses,fires,car fires in NYC happen every day?Or is it relative?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Depends on the depth of the people heap. The more folks, the more public problems. Around here an emergency siren is rare because the population is small, less than 2000, and scattered. In NYC you have a close packing irritation where some people's choices are in error with the resulting kerfuffle. "There are many stories in the Naked City." as the show announcer used to say.

With the tiny towns in the SC games, such occurrences are unlikely. After all, what can happen in 16 Km.²?

[Msprintz 25]

Considering the size of the New York Metropolitan area and the vast distances encompassed within there's bound to many minor emergencies as described in the ops post. These everyday emergencies are everyday occurrences, fires, vehicle accidents, and crime ( mostly robbery, assault, drugs, and yes even murder ( which is obviously higher in urban areas ). This doesn't often warrant a city wide response but rather a more localized response, it's not everyday that you have a fire of 3 alarms or greater. City wide emergencies would constitute primarily of natural disasters, the like of blizzards, floods, tornadoes ( yes the boroughs of New York City have had their share of tornadoes ), earthquakes, tropical systems ( Superstorm Sandy being the most recent and most destructive to date ), heat waves. Unnatural or human caused disasters are few and far between and are often the work of terror attacks, with 9/11 being the worst the region has faced in both human casualties and total destruction suffered.

Even the simple bomb threat mostly turns up empty as no device is found, warranting just a slightly elevated response ( isolated to one structure, but usually no more than a block or two at most ). These emergencies are relative to the size of a given area though, you're generally not going to find these type of numbers in a rural community of Oklahoma.

[Duke87 1,070]

Follow NYCityAlerts on Twitter and you'll get a good idea of how much stuff happens. They tweet about a dozen times a day. It is, of course, all minor stuff: car accidents, single building fires, shootings, robberies, etc.

When you consider that 8 million people live in New York City, a few thousand incidents a year is not much.

[MayorEmir 0]

Wow it looks like the Bomb squad responds to some emergencies!HOw mutch they got???

[Linoa06 1,374]

I remember that Washington, DC, and its fire department had a twitter account where minor emergencies were reported. It was breathtaking - there was so much happening, and it showed just how much emergencies were a daily occurance.

 

Sadly, this man has been removed from office since then, and there isn't any kind of feed anymore -- as far as I know.