Well, on that night, emergency calls escalate 100% because of idiots that set them off in fields of dried brush or densely-packed neighborhoods. church parking lot you say? the cops were like, "meh."
That's pretty much the impression I got last night, while set up in the top of the parking garage in town to photograph them for the paper...I had my police scanner on, and **** was flying everywhere...sirens, people being towed, people using fireworks to do 'drive bys'...not an easy night for the cops to say the least.