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I work in 911 dispatch, and there's a couple crematoriums in the county I work for. Once in a while they call to give us a heads-up when they're doing a cremation in case anyone calls about smoke.
We enter it as a "controlled burn" notification for our fire department, which I suppose it technically is, but it makes me chuckle a little that we're entering the same way we would as if someone was burning yard waste or having a bonfire or something.
I don't know how often they actually do cremations, I assume it's pretty frequent, and I'm not always the one getting the call, but based on how often I've seen these calls go in I don't think they do it for every cremation. I remember hearing somewhere through the grapevine that when the deceased is extremely obese they tend to really smoke up, so I kind of suspect those are the ones where they give us a heads-up.