A caller reported at 7:43 p.m. Tuesday that a nine guys and teenage girls in a tan pickup and “older Mercedes” lit a garbage can on fire at Costa Park, 1441 Claremont Drive.

The caller said they were “lighting fireworks and trying to burn down trees.”

They took off, and firefighters doused the blaze.

Tracy police responded to 210 calls for service on Tuesday. The following is a sampling of those reports.

12:11 a.m.: A caller on the 1600 block of Parkside Drive said a neighbor saw someone in a black Jeep throw a rock through the caller’s car window. The Jeep took off towards Sycamore Parkway.

2:42 a.m.: A caller from J.T. Storage, 2460 Toste Road, reported a security guard saw four boys hop a fence into the place. A security guard looked for the guys in the yard and couldn’t find them, and neither could police when an officer showed up 18 minutes later.

3:22 a.m.: A 27-year-old veteran on the 300 block of Quail Run Circle reported that he felt like killing himself. A dispatcher could hear the guy “popping caps on pill bottles,” and he said he was diagnosed with “acute stress reaction” in 2005. But an officer spoke to the man, and his wife. The officer noted the man “clearly did not need medical attention,” and his wife told an officer that her husband “just wanted attention” and would not hurt himself.

9:22 a.m.: A caller reported hearing a man yelling and screaming at a 6- or 7-year-old child who was crying uncontrollably on the 700 block of East Ferdinand Street. The caller said the guy closed the drapes when he started to hit the child, and had heard similar incidents in the past. An officer talked to the father, who said the boy was crying because “he could not have his way.” There were other kids and adults in the home, and no signs of abuse, the officer said.

9:26 a.m.: A caller said a man tried to open his front door on the 4400 block of Cove Court, then went around back and tried to open the back door. The caller through a window asked the man what he was doing, and he said he was there to clean a foreclosed home. The caller told him the house was not a foreclosure, and he took off in a white pickup. A neighbor said the guy had been there last week trying to get in the home.

11:42 a.m.: A caller reported a 30-year-old guy swiped a camera out of the caller’s parents’ Toyota Tundra at the St. Bernard’s Catholic Church, 163 W. Eaton Ave. The man took off in a green Toyota Sienna.

11:49 a.m.: A caller reported a window was broken and things were stolen from a car at Mountain View Homes, 377 W. Mt. Diablo Ave. Fingerprints of the suspect might have been left behind, the caller said.

12:02 p.m.: A woman at the Versailles Salon, 1010 N. Central Ave., reported her 18-year-old son was at the salon trying to take her purse, and that the previous night he broke windows at her home trying to break in. The man could be heard in the background yelling, “#$@ pigs,” but the woman said he would cause no trouble with police. The man was arrested on suspicion of resisting arrested.

12:57 a.m.: Police detained a 22-year-old man on suspicion of public drunkenness after a caller reported three people were trying break into a vacant home on the 2600 block of Dorset Lane.

1:06 p.m.: A woman on the 600 block of Fawn Lane reported her house and car were egged, a burrito was smeared on her husband’s car’s windshield, a neighbor’s home was egged and a beer bottle was thrown at a neighbor’s house. She asked for extra police patrols.

4:14 p.m.: A caller reported about 10 girls were in a fight at William Adams Park, 4089 English Oak Avenue. The caller said one girl was slamming the head of another girl on concrete. Police couldn’t find the girls when an officer showed up 18 minutes later.

4:49 p.m.: A woman reported four kids jumped a fence to get into the backyard of a vacant home and swim in a pool on the 2400 block of Ozark Drive. She said they were the same group of kids that police talked to about three weeks ago. An officer detained three kids and warned them, and one ran off. Police said someone was swimming in the nude.

5:16 p.m.: A caller reported a window was broken on her car on the 1500 block of Whispering Wind Drive.

5:17 p.m.: A caller said someone swiped two checks from his mother’s home on the 4500 block of Twin Creek Court and cashed them.

5:58 p.m.: A caller reported an illegal vendor was selling food from an ice chest on a pushcart at Wall Street and Lowell Avenue. Police could not find the vendor when an officer showed up eight minutes later.

6:54 p.m.: A woman said she and her husband were arguing in a garage of a home on the 1900 block of Bankston Drive when her husband picked up a pellet gun and said, “They’re going to shoot me when they get here.” She got the gun from him, and locked the guy in the garage. She said he’d gone on anti-depressants two days ago, and had been talking about going to an in-patient clinic “to deal with his issues.” Police said the man was mentally ill.

This column includes a sample of items as reported in the Tracy Police Department dispatcher’s daily log. Additional information is based on reports from officers and other law enforcement agencies. To report information anonymously about a crime: Crime Stoppers, 831-6847.