Live from PulsePoint
The map and incident list above are PulsePoint's official Portland Fire & Rescue feed, embedded directly — real-time fire, medical, traffic, and hazmat dispatches.
Live · updates in real time
Portland's public-safety activity,
in one continuously updating place.
Portland Breaking is an independent, civic-data news project that surfaces real-time emergency dispatch information — fire, medical, traffic, and hazmat — from Portland Fire & Rescue, live via PulsePoint. No login, no noise: just what's happening across the city, right now.
Live Incident Feed
Real-time Portland Fire & Rescue dispatches — live map and incident list, straight from PulsePoint. Newest incidents appear automatically.
Live map & incident list powered by PulsePoint (Portland Fire & Rescue, agency 00291). Police calls aren't included — Portland Police publishes dispatched-calls data only monthly. In an emergency, call 911.
About this project
Portland Breaking is an independent news aggregator focused on real-time public-safety activity inside the City of Portland. Rather than traditional journalism, the project makes publicly available dispatch data easier for residents, journalists, students, and visitors to read at a glance.
We do not break news in the traditional sense. This is not investigative journalism, and it is not a substitute for a newsroom. We do not identify individuals, conduct interviews, or operate as an emergency tip line. If you have an emergency, call 911.
Our standards
- Source transparency — the live feed is PulsePoint's own Portland Fire & Rescue data.
- Privacy — we surface locations and call types, not names.
- No sensationalism — we present data plainly, without hype.
- Corrections — when upstream data changes, what you see changes with it.
- Independence — we are not affiliated with any City of Portland agency.
How it works
A few things worth knowing before you read the feed.
Police data is monthly
Portland Police publishes dispatched-calls data only once a month (a Tableau/RegJIN dataset), so police calls aren't in the live feed — just fire-bureau activity.
Medical aid dominates
"Medical / AID response" calls make up roughly half of all fire-bureau dispatches. Big fires are rare; medical calls are constant.
Alarms are usually false
"Auto fire alarm" dispatches mostly turn out to be false alarms — an activated detector, not an active fire.
Articles & guides
Plain-language explainers on how the data — and the city's response — actually work.
Neighborhoods
Portland Fire & Rescue covers the whole city. A few of the neighborhoods you'll see in the feed:
The daily recap
A short email each morning around 7 AM Pacific summarizing the previous day's notable dispatch activity across Portland. Free, no tracking, unsubscribe anytime.
Contact
Questions, corrections, or a local business interested in sponsorship? Reach out at hello@portlandbreaking.com. For emergencies, always call 911 — this site is not monitored in real time by a person.