Amherst · Country Parkway
RESOLVEDA barking-dog feud on Country Parkway grows into a threat to shoot the dog, a name-run for the caller, and an ambulance rolling to Monty Payne
At 10:02 a.m. Amherst PD dispatch put out a call for a man at 204 Country Parkway who, according to a neighbor at 184 Country Parkway, was “highly agitated, highly upset and going to shoot with a dog at the residence” at a dog kept at that address. The 184 side of the call, the barking side, has ONE prior barking-dog complaint on file — from September, per the officer who read it back on the air.
By 10:03 the dispatcher was reading the caller's name off carefully in phonetics — Kayla, King, Adam, Yankee, Lima, Adam, DOB 11-6-1994 — with the correction two minutes later that the middle initial was actually Yickey. The call rolled into a follow-up at 3612 for the same complainant, then, at 10:21, morphed into a separate scene at the same neighbor's door: “banging on the door, yelling and screaming over some family drama”. Carlisle asked for an ambulance at that point, sent to General Monty Payne. By 10:26 the barking-dog officer signed out clear: “the dogs are completely quiet until I walked up to the gate”
Ellicott Creek · water rescue
RESOLVEDEllicott Creek, Getzville and Alpha 9 all respond behind Tonawanda police for a lone swimmer
The morning's most concentrated fire radio traffic came off Amherst Fire Dispatch between 8:51 and 9:10, with Getzville 9-2 responding after a Tonawanda police report, followed by Ellicott Creek 95, Ellicott Creek 9-1, Ellicott Creek 4, and finally Alpha 9. Command noted operations moving to channel 2 at 8:59 and, at 9:09, put the shape of the call into one line: “that's their one swimmer”
No mutual-aid escalation, no boat call, no ambulance transport surfaced on the air after that — which reads like a swimmer recovered or accounted for before the full response was needed. The channel went quiet on the incident by 9:11.
Amherst · Meadowbrook
A 19-year-old in crisis at 56 Meadowbrook opens the shift
At 7:37 a.m., Amherst PD dispatch put officers out to 56 Meadowbrook for a 19-year-old “in crisis, hitting his head into the wall, screaming”. It was the first mental-hygiene call of the window and drew a full response — the dispatcher stood by for action a minute later, then a covering unit at Sheridan-Sweet Home cleared to head over. Nothing further came across the air.
Amherst · Seabrook Drive
RESOLVED'Suspicious' men with tools at 155 Seabrook are probably National Grid
A caller at 155 Seabrook reported “two males that came to the door with some tools and were trying to get into the house”, which drew an Amherst PD unit at 9:24 a.m. Dispatch answered its own call a minute later: “looks like there's probably going to be National Grid workers working in the area” — the audio garbles it as "national graders" but there is only one likely translation on a residential street on Whisper's palette. The call cleared without incident.
Amherst · Maple Road
Welfare check at 4050 Maple: a woman in her 50s, wrapped in a blanket, under a tree between Wendy's and Kyoto
At 10:34 a.m., an Amherst PD dispatcher put out a welfare check at 4050 Maple Road — the caller reported a white female in her 50s wrapped in a blanket under a tree between Wendy's and the Kyoto, “our caller believes she's sleeping but isn't sure”, with a cluster of bags nearby. Voluntary transport to Kenmore Mercy went out at 10:36 for a related run in the area — the two calls didn't explicitly link on the air but ran in the same channel window.
Amherst · Tech Drive
RESOLVEDPDO at the YMCA handicap lot on 150 Tech Drive — blue Ford Escape hit, other driver still there with a card
At 10:31 a.m., a PDO went up at the YMCA at 150 Tech Drive, in the handicap lot. Per the dispatcher, “our caller was struck by another vehicle which is still there and they left a card with info”. Property-damage-only, no injury, and it looks like the ID exchange happened before the officer arrived.