Buffalo · Condon Avenue · Death on Scene

A Mental-Health Crisis Call on Condon Avenue Ends With the Patient Pronounced on Arrival

Crews staged for police on a report of violence and possible weapons; when they reached the patient, the call had become a death notification.

Shortly before 11:00 AM, Buffalo Fire was sent to 200 Condon Avenue for a 38-year-old in a mental-health crisis, with reported violence and possible weapons. Engine 26 and Ladder 6 were told to stage for police before making contact.

By 11:05 AM the tenor had changed entirely. Engine 26 came back to dispatch with the plainest of words — “Patient's gone on arrival” — and dispatch confirmed it, noting police had the scene and the ambulance could be picked up. The run had come in amid a busy stretch for the city's rescue units: moments earlier dispatch had advised that the medic unit F20 was tied up on another cardiac arrest across town. The scanner traffic established the crisis call, the staging and the death on arrival; it did not establish a cause before the thread closed.

Olean · Garden Avenue · Missing Juvenile

Olean Police Comb Garden Avenue for a Suicidal Teenager, and the Canvass Comes Up Empty

A girl described only by a blue sweatshirt and white sneakers sent cars through the neighborhood, with officers asked to ping her phone.

Just after 1:00 PM, Olean PD dispatch broadcast a two-way to all cars: anyone in the area was to look for Gianna Brown, a juvenile female “wearing a blue sweatshirt, no pants, and white sneakers”. The call had come in at 12:50 PM, and the search quickly centered on Garden Avenue, where a unit went clear on foot to hunt for her.

Dispatch later underscored the stakes, asking that a DIR report note the girl — also given on the air as Deanna Brown — was a juvenile who had made a suicidal comment. By mid-afternoon the canvass through the Garden and Alder area had turned up nothing; officers asked whether she had a cell phone on her and, told she did, moved to have it pinged. The scanner traffic established the search and the negative result; it did not establish that she had been found before the window closed.

Orleans County · Ridgeway · Fatality Dispatch

Crews Paged to a Ridgeway Address for a 37-Year-Old Found Unconscious and Not Breathing

An early-morning page on the Orleans County fire channel carried the markers of a fatality response.

At 8:51 AM, the Orleans County fire and EMS paging channel toned out a call on Niagara Road in Ridgeway for a 37-year-old female found unconscious and not breathing. The page carried the dispatch markers of a fatality response.

The traffic rode the Orleans County paging system, which places the call in Orleans County. The scanner traffic established the age, the condition and the response; it did not establish a confirmed outcome or any cause before the thread closed. A 37-year-old collapse of this nature is unusual enough on the morning wire to merit the record even as the details remained thin.

West Seneca · Orchard Park Road · Hit-and-Run

A Multi-Vehicle Crash at Orchard Park Road Leaves a Black Jeep Fleeing East

Reckless driving touched off a chain crash at East and West, and the suspect vehicle took off toward Clinton Street.

Just before 2:30 PM, West Seneca police were dispatched to a multi-vehicle crash at East and West Road at Orchard Park Road, with reckless driving reported as the cause.

The suspect vehicle — described as a black Jeep — did not stay, fleeing eastbound toward Clinton Street as a hit-and-run. The scanner traffic established the crash, the reckless-driving report and the fleeing vehicle; it did not establish injuries or whether the Jeep was located before the window closed.

Amherst · UB North Campus · Indecent Exposure

An Indecent-Exposure Suspect Flees a UB Residence Hall as Campus Police Broadcast a Description

A man exposed himself outside a dorm room before running down the stairs; officers put a detailed look-out over the air.

Around 12:17 PM, University at Buffalo campus police handled a report of a male who had exposed himself outside room 202A in a North Campus residence hall. The subject had fled running down the stairs.

Officers broadcast a detailed description to campus units — a tall, lanky white male with messy blonde curls, in tan sweatpants and a gray zip-up. A later transmission placed the incident at roughly 12:05 PM and noted the alarm in the area had been reset. The scanner traffic established the exposure, the description and the flight; it did not establish an arrest before the thread closed.

WNY · Hungry Heroes

Medic Unit to Dispatch: Any Chance We Stop for Texas Hots?

A rig makes the only request that matters mid-shift.

Between calls, a TransAm ambulance crew keyed up with the real emergency of the hour: a partner's lunch. “9780, if my partner would like to know if we can stop at the Texas Hots place” — the kind of transmission that reminds you the people on the other end of a 911 call still have to eat.

Buffalo · Two at Once

Truck 5 Works Two Calls at Once, One a Woman Who Walked Away From Home

Spread thin, a crew asks for another ambulance and the police — and keeps an eye out for a lost neighbor.

A single address gave Truck 5 double duty. “We have two calls going on right now. The second call is an elderly woman who is lost and left her house”, the crew told dispatch, asking for a second ambulance and police to boot. It is the quiet arithmetic of a busy morning — one rig, two patients, and somewhere out there an elderly woman who had simply left her house.

Hamburg · The Gentle Dispatch

An Elderly Man, a Gas Can, and a Ride Home Courtesy of Hamburg Police

A domestic call on Route 20 resolves with the softest instruction on the air.

A Route 20 call near Lake Logan began as a domestic and an elderly gentleman walking with a gas can. It ended with a dispatcher's unhurried marching orders to the responding car: “Be clear to give this elderly gentleman a ride to the gas station and give him back to her”. Not every call needs cuffs — sometimes it just needs a lift.

Amherst · UB · Crate Expectations

Campus Cops Check on a Crated Dog in a Parked Traverse — and Find a Good Boy, Not in Distress

No windows down, but a happy ending in the Hawk Center lot.

A report of a dog crated in a parked vehicle with no windows open sent UB officers to the Hawk Center lot, where a blue Chevy Traverse was found and the occupant checked. The verdict, delivered with the care the situation deserved: the dog was not in distress. Case closed, tail presumably wagging.

Olean · Stop the Presses

Be On the Lookout for a Stolen Black Wheelbarrow — Deposition and All

An Olean officer's deadpan rundown turns a Country Fair larceny into high procedure.

The full majesty of police process came to bear on a wheelbarrow. An Olean officer cleared a Country Fair larceny with a complete after-action brief over the air: “we obtained a deposition from the manager, a report will be on file, if anyone observes a black wheelbarrow that was stolen from Country Fair last night, younger male and female are the suspects”. A manager's deposition, a report on file, and two suspects at large — for a wheelbarrow stolen overnight.

Amherst · Getzville · Hindu Cultural Center

Worshipper's Collapse at Hindu Cultural Center Draws Multi-Company Response

At 10:00 AM, Amherst Fire Dispatch sent Getzville and EMS units to the Hindu Cultural Center at 1595 North French Road for a man in his 50s who had passed out in the main hallway. He was conscious when the call first went out, but dispatch quickly updated the response to report he now had shallow breathing. Swormville 8 was on location within a minute, and Getzville 9-2, Getzville 9-3 and an additional mutual-aid unit were added to back up the call.

Tonawanda · Banner Avenue · Medical Emergency

Tonawanda Woman Vomiting Blood for Hours Before Hot Medical Call Goes Out

Just after 10:39 AM, Tonawanda police dispatch put out a hot medical response to 236 Banner Avenue, between Drew and Waldner, for a 63-year-old woman who had been vomiting blood since 2:30 AM that morning and was now lethargic with slurred speech — more than eight hours after her symptoms began.

Buffalo · Delaware Avenue · Elevator Rescue

Multi-Company Response Sent to Elevator Entrapment at Delaware Avenue High-Rise

Just after 10:28 AM, Buffalo Fire Dispatch sent a still-alarm assignment — Engine 38, Ladder 6, Rescue 1 and Battalion 47 — to the Pan American Square apartments at 2633 Delaware Avenue for a resident reported “trapped in the elevator between the floors of number 3 and number 4”, in Building C. Dispatch added a second rescue unit to the call as it went out. Engine 38 reached the scene within five minutes and began investigating the building; no further update on the trapped resident's condition came over the air.

Buffalo · Main Street · Animal Cruelty Report

Bystanders Report Man Beating, Dragging Pit Bull Puppy on Main Street

Just before 11 AM, a neighbor called in a report that a man at 2930 Main Street, Apartment 255, had been hitting his dog and dragging it by the collar, leaving the pit bull puppy “bleeding from its face and had cuts on him”. Radio dispatch relayed the description to a South District patrol and offered to send backup; the unit said it would check the apartment and report back if the man couldn't be located.

Buffalo · Edison Avenue · Missing Child Report

Mother Tells Police She Doesn't Know Where Her Toddler Is After Father's Arrest

Just after 10:41 AM, a Buffalo police E District unit was sent to 125 Edison Avenue after a woman told dispatch she did not know the whereabouts of her one-year-old daughter following her child's father's arrest the night before; the girl had reportedly last been in her father's care. A separate C District officer on the radio said a report would be filed on the case.

Cheektowaga · Williamstown · Apartment Fire

Oxygen Tank, Lit Cigarette Blamed for Cheektowaga Apartment Bedroom Fire

Cheektowaga Fire Dispatch sent companies to an extinguished bedroom fire at 20 Williamstown, Apartment 2, just after 10:31 AM. The complainant told dispatch the blaze was already out, “just a little smokey in the apartment, and it was caused by oxygen and a cigarette”. Engine 193 arrived to find nothing showing and took command of the scene while a truck company investigated.

Hamburg · Route 20 · Domestic Dispute

Hamburg Domestic Call Turns Out to Be an Elderly Man and a Gas Can

Just after 8:23 AM, Hamburg police were sent to a reported domestic dispute on Route 20, about a quarter-mile west of Lake Logan, tied to a vehicle registered to a Brad Perkett. Dispatch radioed that the situation appeared to involve “an elderly gentleman with a gas can”; officers were cleared to give the man a ride to a nearby gas station and bring him back afterward.

Jamestown · Barrett Avenue · Burglary in Progress

Jamestown Police Swarm Barrett Avenue House After Report of Burglars Inside, Shades Drawn

Just after 9:22 AM, Jamestown police sent patrol units J1, J4 and J7 to a reported burglary in progress at 155 Barrett Avenue, between Huff Street and Cousin Place, where dispatch said an unknown number of subjects had broken into the house and “pulled the shades down and are inside the house now”. The property's owner, reached in California and identified on the air as Robert Koslow (also given as Coswell), told dispatch his maintenance man drives a white van and was not involved; two vehicles were reported leaving the scene, a red Dodge Ram and a Volkswagen. Officers requested additional cars to help clear the house, and a State Police car also responded.