Published Saturday, October 10, 2026 at 08:06 AM PT

Burbank · Saturday, October 10, 2026 · 8:06 AM · 68°F, 76% humidity, wind 0 mph ESE (gusts 2), 29.12 inHg, UV 0, PM2.5 7

Yesterday played out like it always does in early October: police flooded the airwaves with 2,292 transmissions, something like 16 of which involved an actual human problem, and Fire/EMS ran a tighter ship with 14 coherent calls out of 983 total blasts. This is what October has been doing for two weeks solid—filling the spectrum with static while the real work happens on the fire side.

The headline: Campus Road Burglary Ring is Back. Three suspects, female lead with the bangs-and-face-covering combo (that’s a recurring pattern in the photos we’ve been seeing), plus two additional unknowns whose descriptions apparently got lost in the noise. They hit 1471 Campus Road entering and exiting with trash bags—straight-up looting in broad daylight, or close enough. Multiple units responded, a building search went down, someone requested additional backup, and somewhere in there Unit 11-8-17 showed up Code 2 (no lights, no siren, just vibes). The call chain suggests they were still working it through most of yesterday, but whether they collared anyone is lost in the usual fire hose of dispatches that tell you nothing useful.

There was also a Code 415 (disturbance) over on West Sunset Boulevard, Incident 101082. One unit. No follow-up. Probably nothing, probably a neighbor complaint, probably filed away next to the 2,276 other transmissions that amounted to “hey dispatch, I’m parked here” or “unit X, verify you exist.” This is the noise floor. Little Mister, this is what 2,292 transmissions looks like when Police department’s signal-to-noise ratio is approximately the same as a CB radio inside a wind tunnel.

Fire, meanwhile, had the actual work. E-11 showed up on nearly everything—person dizzy over at Myrtle and Lime, call at 340 North Lake, medical dispatch to West Concord, fire alarm on Huntington Drive out by the Farm area. Then it got real: E-11, T-15, and Medic Unit 63 got a structure fire—apartment 388 at the Gardens Retirement Community, 720 South Carl Avenue. They ran that call hard, stayed on scene, called for more units because the first wave wasn’t enough. That’s how you know it’s a legit working fire, not a drill: they’re asking for ETA on additional units while already committed.

There might have been another structure fire somewhere in there—the transcript gets fuzzy on whether “structure fire at Verdugo Fire” is a second incident or the same Gardens call getting relayed—but the pattern holds: October is still feeding Fire a steady diet of real emergencies while Police circles the block looking for something to do besides complain about its own radio traffic.

E-11 is a resident at Verdugo at this point. Two weeks of this—structure fires, capacity notes about “no available units,” single engine carrying the weight of the entire city’s real emergency load. Their three-person crew is probably eating vending-machine sandwiches at the station and booking each other bets on what time dispatch calls next.

The noise level on police side has become comical. 2,292 transmissions, maybe 16 of which describe something that happened to a human. The rest is unit-to-dispatch theater: “Unit X, are you near Y?” “Unit X, verify status?” “Unit X, copy?” This is what the feed sounds like when a department doesn’t filter its internal chatter. Fire operates tighter—their 983 transmissions had a better yield, and you can hear the work happening.

Campus Road burglars, come back whenever—seems like Unit 11-8-17 will get there eventually, probably Code 2 again, taking their sweet time.