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Amherst · 73 Oakview Drive

Amherst Fire Toned Out to a Cardiac Arrest on Oakview Drive; Twin City Transports for a Probable Sign-Off

At 12:27, Amherst Fire Dispatch put a call out on 73 Oakview Drive[*] between Crestwood Lane and a second cross street the trunk did not resolve cleanly: “73 Oakview Drive, 72-year-old male in cardiac arrest, CPR”. Twin City ambulance was already tasked as a private on the run, and dispatch repeated the address one more time so the responding crew could copy it clean.

The next two hours on the channel were quieter than usual for a run of that kind — no additional units requested, no BLS-to-ALS upgrade called on the air, and no diversion to a closer ED. At 14:34, Amherst Fire signed the call closed with the language EMS uses when a resuscitation has stopped short of the hospital: “patient left to a Twin City for a probable sign-off”, cleared in service at 14:35.

Around the NeighborhoodThe Northtowns, call by call

Amherst · I-990 westbound at Millersport

RESOLVED

Motorcyclist Knocked Down on the 990 Westbound at Millersport; a Suburban With Four Injured Occupants in the Same Wreck

Just before 14:01, an Amherst officer called the trunk with the phrasing that gets every car pointed the same way: “the motorcyclist that got knocked down”. Dispatch echoed it as a scene at 290 westbound at Millersport, and the officer clarified within seconds that the motorcyclist had been struck slightly east of the exit itself — “he's on the 290 westbound at Millersport”. Amherst PD went talk-alert at 14:03 and ordered all cars in on the 290 westbound from the Sheridan entrance, because the westbound direction meant no help from behind.

Amherst Fire Dispatch confirmed the run at 14:03 with the motorcyclist conscious and alert, no known extent of injuries, and Twin City rolling as the private ambulance. A minute later PD radioed in the count that made the call bigger: a passenger vehicle (heard on the trunk as a Suburban, with the transcript mangling the word) also involved with four occupants injured. Eggertsville 9-2 was assigned to the medical side, and one patient was under evaluation by 14:11.

The motorcycle came back on an Ontario registration — the driver, Charles Edwards, had crossed the Peace Bridge earlier in the day — and PD ordered the bike towed at 14:09. Civilians on scene had started directing traffic before enough units arrived to push them back; by 14:13 a supervisor had the westbound lanes squeezed down to a single lane through the accident. The scene cleared through mid-afternoon with the sole publicly-audible patient a sign-off from Twin City.

Amherst · 147 Princeton Avenue, Apt 3

RESOLVED

Amherst PD Toned Out to a Princeton Avenue Domestic Where the Male Half Has a History of Jumping Out the Window

The morning’s first big Amherst PD call landed at 147 Princeton Avenue[*], apartment 3 at 08:07 — the male half was reportedly on scene, the female half was said to be on foot in the area, and dispatch was briefing the primary unit that the complainant wanted her keys and the male removed. The screen already carried a warning on the address for the female complainant, “she has fought with us in the past”, and the responding officer offered the shift the flag that PD flag calls with when it matters: “looks like the last two times we dealt with a male half, he had jumped out the window and fled”.

The complainant was identified on the trunk as Martesha Randall, and PD walked her back into the apartment with cover a few minutes after 08:57. The apartment cleared: no male half on scene, but the officer inside reported three children in the apartment and dispatch flagged “mental health history from this address” at that address. PD gave a physical description of a person of interest — a female born in 2008, roughly 5-foot-2 with tattoos on the forearm and face — and put out that she might be in a silver Impala parked out front.

By 09:04 the call had settled with reports on file and no charges audible on the air. Amherst PD also handled a second, separate return to the same 100 block over the next couple of hours: a Cadillac reported abandoned overnight at 235 Allenhurst Road[*] just up the street, followed at 10:38 by a “second call, same nature, for 225” at 225 Allenhurst Road[*] and the officer’s dry accounting a few minutes later that “all three calls on Allenhurst, screens updated, reports on file”. The trunk moved on; nothing more escalated on the air.

Snyder · 203 South Union at Walnut Grove Apartments

RESOLVED

Snyder Fire Rolls to a Carbon-Monoxide Detector at Walnut Grove; Occupant Out of the Apartment, No Symptoms

Amherst Fire Dispatch put Snyder Fire on a CO detector activation at 203 South Union Road[*], Apartment C at the Walnut Grove Apartments between Union Place and the Village Line at 09:40. The dispatcher gave the standard qualifier the panel reports so responding crews know what they’re walking into: “carbon monoxide detector activation without symptoms”.

A firefighter on scene by 09:54 already had the resident out of the apartment: “occupant out of the apartment, no symptoms whatsoever, waiting for us to show up with the meter”, the crew reported — the standard Snyder posture on these is get the occupant to the hallway, then meter the space. Dispatch cleared the second alarm-panel time-out at 09:48 and closed the incident once meter checks came in negative. A separate Amherst PD welfare check at nearby 193 South Union Road[*] at 10:01 for a confused adult was unrelated.

Snyder · Bernhardt Drive and Kings Highway

RESOLVED

Snyder Fire Sent to a 74-Year-Old Bicyclist Struck by a Vehicle at Bernhardt and Kings Highway, Minor Injuries

At 10:50, an Amherst Fire dispatcher called the intersection: “report of a 74-year-old male bicyclist, truck, has minor injuries”. The narrative on the trunk landed as a pedestrian-versus-vehicle at the corner of Bernhardt Drive[*] and Kings Highway[*], with dispatch calling it a bicyclist struck by a vehicle. Snyder 501 responded, joined by Snyder 5 and Snyder 9, and the patient was managed on scene with no request for extrication or a second ambulance. The call cleared without escalation.


Overheard: The WiresCops, cabbies, custodians, dispatchers — off-script

Amherst · 1575 Niagara Falls Boulevard (Target)

Chihuahua Reported “In Distress” Inside a Black Sedan Behind Target on the Boulevard, Windows Cracked

A call worked its way onto the trunk at 13:36 with the kind of specificity that suggests a caller who takes small dogs seriously: “Target 1575 Niagara Falls Boulevard, near Bath and Body by the cart corral — looking for a black high-end sedan, a Chihuahua inside appears to be in distress, windows cracked, vehicle’s off”. The dispatcher acknowledged it as important; no follow-up on-air about whether Store Security beat PD to the car, whether the owner turned up mid-shop, or the eventual fate of one small dog on what was a mostly-sunny 74-degree Sunday afternoon.

Amherst · custody exchange

Custody Exchange Escalates Into a Spitting Incident; Officer Requests Cover “As Soon as I Have One”

The line every parent hopes never touches their weekend: “originally, two parties were there to do a custody exchange — it escalated, one party spit on the other, I’ll get you a cover as soon as I have one”. An Amherst officer put the summary out at 10:57 and asked for backup at the earliest opportunity. No location came clean on the trunk; the paperwork side ran through the rest of the hour, and PD closed it out with no arrests audible on the air.

Amherst · the compliance department

Elderly Woman Pushes Into the Compliance Department Believing It Was Her Own

A perfect one-line dispatch call at 13:16: “there’s an elderly female that pushed her way into the compliance department thinking that it was her own”. No further location on the trunk, no follow-up. Whatever the compliance department was, it now has one more compliance question to work through.

Williamsville · Main Street outside Ed Young

Amherst PD Tracks a Woman “Appears to Be Under the Influence” Walking East on Main From Ed Young Nissan Toward Garrison Park

A patrol officer put out a description at 13:04 of a woman in the area of 5630 Main Street — the Ed Young Nissan lot in Williamsville village — who “an Asian female, blonde hair, black dress, appears to be under the influence”. Over the next four minutes the officer followed her east: passing North Ellicott by 13:07, then out at 5752 Main just west of Garrison Road by 13:08, where a second unit backed the stop up. The trunk did not carry a disposition on the air, and the officer moved on to the next call.

Niagara Falls · lost-and-found

Embassy Control to Lost-and-Found: A Lady Believes She May Have Lost Her Passport at the Hotel — in April

The Embassy Suites Niagara Falls control channel put a tidy little request out on the shuttle trunk at 13:14: “can you go down to lost and found? I have a lady who thinks she might have lost her passport from April”. Whatever the outcome, three months is a long time to be missing a passport and then decide to check the last hotel first.


Regional BlotterBeyond the Northtowns — WNY at large

Lancaster · 4845 Transit Road, Parkway Apartments

RESOLVED

Reported Stove Fire at the Parkway Apartments on Transit Road Pulls Lancaster Fire

Lancaster Fire District 1 toned a stove fire on the air at 12:57 at the Parkway Apartments, 4845 Transit Road, Apartment B-as-in-Boy 9. A working stove fire in a garden-apartment kitchen typically stays contained inside the unit — the trunk went quiet in the minutes after the initial page with no request for tanker support or a second alarm, consistent with a run that landed as a small food-on-the-stove or kitchen-appliance job, not a working structure fire.

Buffalo · South Park

Buffalo Fire Dispatched to a Psych Patient on South Park Threatening Self-Harm

BFD Ch1 put a call out at 14:00 for a South Park run flagged “South Park, zero-violence, psych patient, wants to commit suicide”. Dispatch requested a following-service unit at 14:02; the call cleared to routine mental-hygiene handling without further escalation on the air.

Wheatfield · 1939 Fashion Outlets Blvd

Fire Alarm Activation at the Fashion Outlets in Niagara — Zone 20, No Store Name Indicated

Niagara County Fire Control repeated the page for Niagara Active Hose at 09:21: fire alarm activation, 1939 Fashion Outlets Boulevard, coming in as a zone 20 and zone 0 hit with no store name indicated and no further location information available. Standard mall-alarm routing; nothing more from the panel or the crews audible on the trunk.

Other Calls of Note

[07:45]Buffalo · 2449 Delaware Avenue Buffalo Fire investigate ringing alarms next door to 2449 Delaware Avenue with Engine 38 and Ladder 13 — called back at 07:57 as “problem solved”.
[08:32]Buffalo · Fillmore at Genesee Buffalo Fire Engine 21 assigned to a 32-year-old female with chest pain in the area of Fillmore Avenue and Genesee Street.
[09:10]Buffalo · 868 Tonawanda (Hearts for the Homeless thrift) Buffalo Fire responded on an alarm-company hit at the Hearts for the Homeless thrift shop, 868 Tonawanda Street between Loyola and Riverside, zone 27.
[09:35]Cheektowaga (Sloan) · 189 Halstead Avenue Cheektowaga Fire Dispatch repeated to Sloan for an investigate on a fire alarm activation — upstairs heat and smoke — at 189 Halstead Avenue between Ryman and Broadway.
[11:26]Cheektowaga · 37 St. Felix Cheektowaga Fire toned a 66-year-old male with chest pain at 37 St. Felix, JMS ambulance response.
[11:44]East Aurora · Westview Court East Aurora Fire and AMR 3559 dispatched to Westview Court for an 82-year-old female unable to ambulate due to back pain.
[12:18]Cheektowaga · 55 Genesee Street Cheektowaga Fire dispatched U-Crest for a general smoke-alarm fire alarm activation at 55 Genesee Street in the West Highview zone; no working fire.
[12:30]Buffalo · 162 Germain Street Buffalo Fire Engine 119 EMS run to 162 Germain Street lower, between Amherst and Grove, for a one-year-old female reportedly ill, time-out 12 minutes.
[13:16]Depew · 15 JFK Depew PD dispatched to 15 JFK for a domestic — neighbors reported hearing adults screaming at each other inside the residence.
[13:48]Cheektowaga · 26 Barbara Cheektowaga PD return call for 26 Barbara — one party left the scene and reportedly almost struck the complainant on the way out; complainant wanted to see police again.
[14:14]Clarence · Clarence Town Park Amherst Fire ran a Clarence EMS call at the Clarence Town Park, 10405 Main Street between Schiffler Road and Cummings Drive, for a 60-year-old female reported unconscious; Twin City requested and Clarence 8 responding.
[08:35]Amherst · 207 Stevenson Boulevard Amherst Fire dispatched a hallway smoke-detector fire alarm activation at 207 Stevenson Boulevard[*] between Rosedale Boulevard and Longmeadow Road; alarm company updated the call as caused by burnt food.
[13:55]Amherst · 213 Woodcross Drive Amherst Fire toned Eggertsville and Twin City for a 78-year-old female reporting difficulty breathing at 213 Woodcross Drive between Emerson Drive and Argosy Drive.

Editor’s Note

A quiet Sunday morning gave way to a busy early afternoon on the Amherst–Clarence trunk. At 12:27, Amherst Fire toned out a cardiac arrest at 73 Oakview Drive with CPR in progress; Twin City transported for what dispatch later called a probable sign-off. Ninety minutes later a motorcyclist got knocked down on the I-990 westbound at Millersport, with a Suburban carrying four injured occupants also in the wreck — all cars scrambled, the ramp dropped to one lane, and Eggertsville 9-2 and Twin City ran the medical side. Elsewhere: a Snyder domestic where dispatch flagged that the male half had jumped out a window the last two times PD came calling, and a Chihuahua locked in a hot black sedan behind Target on Niagara Falls Boulevard.

Daily Gem

Looks like the last two times we dealt with a male half, he had jumped out the window and fled.”

— Amherst PD, 08:10

By the Numbers

Segments
966
Active systems
27
Busiest hour
14:00–15:00 (I-990 motorcycle MVA response)
Regional Breaking
0
Updates
0
By Agency (top 5)
BucketSegs
Fire / EMS380
Police260
Hotel / shuttle / taxi140
Airport / aviation110
Schools20
By Area (top 5)
BucketSegs
Williamsville & Amherst340
Niagara County125
Cheektowaga / Lancaster / Depew95
Other Erie County80
Buffalo60

Agency & area buckets are estimated from ProScan channel labels and address cues; exact counts within ±10% are the intent.

[*] = a name the scanner audio left uncertain and could not be confirmed against an official source; treat as unverified. Routine street-name fixes against official municipal lists are applied silently.
The WNY Listening Post · Sunday, July 19, 2026 · P.M. Edition · Vol. I, No. 71
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