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Williamsville · Brightsmith Brewery

Choking Diner Brings Fire Crews to Brightsmith Brewery on Main Street

At 19:45 Friday, Amherst Fire dispatched Williamsville crews to 5609 Main Street — Brightsmith Brewery, between East Spring Street and Mill Street — for “a male choking”. Dispatch initially flagged the patient as not breathing before quickly downgrading; a follow-up transmission moments later confirmed he was breathing again, suggesting the obstruction had cleared by the time units pulled in.

Around the NeighborhoodThe Northtowns, call by call

Akron · Clarence Center Road

RESOLVED

Shovel Strikes a 63-Year-Old's Leg on Clarence Center Road

Amherst Fire raised Akron 91 at 15:31 for a 63-year-old male with a “serious leg injury from a shovel” at 65 Clarence Center Road, between Beale Street and Hake Road. Twin City 242 staged out of Main Street Quarters; Akron units were on location within seven minutes. Dispatch's terse summary — “Shovel, 1531 hours” — left the precise mechanism to the imagination, but a self-inflicted yard-work mishap is the most charitable reading.

Williamsville · Wegmans on Sheridan

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Palpitations in the Wegmans Kitchen at 275 Sheridan

Main-Transit EMS rolled at 16:50 for a 49-year-old female employee “having palpitations” inside the kitchen at Wegmans, 275 Sheridan Drive, between Evans Street and SJ Road. Dispatch noted a cardiac history and Akron 7 responded as mutual aid. The patient was assisted on scene and units cleared without a transport flagged on the air.

Williamsville · Boulevard Mall corridor

RESOLVED

Two Men Reported Pinning a Woman Near the Bathrooms

Amherst PD took a call shortly after 15:17 reporting “two males were pinning a female off against the wall near the bathrooms”, with detailed suspect descriptions broadcast within a minute: a Black male in a dark blue hooded sweatshirt, a second Black male wearing a blue jersey over a black T-shirt, and a Black female in a gray quarter-zip jacket. The patrol response identified one party as Marcus, who turned out to have two outstanding bench warrants from the City of Buffalo. No injuries were broadcast on the air; the radio traffic suggests the incident moved from initial alarm to a routine warrant-clearance within the hour.

Snyder · Stineway Court

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Third-Party Call Reports a Teen Vomiting Blood Off Maple Road

Just after 19:06, Amherst Fire received a third-party call for a 19-year-old female “vomiting blood” at 1 Stineway Court, a short cul-de-sac off Maple Road. Engine 1-0-7 and Twin City responded; on-scene crews reported the patient assisted and units cleared by 19:31. The third-party caller dynamic is one to watch on these — by the time the medics get there, the person who actually saw the blood is rarely the one answering the door.

Amherst · Fox & Hounds Suites

RESOLVED

68-Year-Old Falls in Hotel Lot on Transit, Facial Injuries Reported

Squad 3 and Twin City staged at 22:57 for “the 68-year-old male who fell has facial injuries” in the back parking lot of 9540 Transit Road, between Deer Creek Lane and the Erie–Niagara borderline. The transcript renders the hotel as “Fox Shops and Suites” — dispatch context strongly suggests Fox & Hounds Suites, a stretch of Transit-Road lodging just south of the county line. Patient was transported and units cleared without flagging multi-system response.

Amherst · Crystal Commons Apartments

RESOLVED

Sickle-Cell Episode at Crystal Commons on Ridgely Road

Ellicott Creek and Twin City were dispatched at 16:24 to 3894 Ridgely Road, Apartment C at Crystal Commons Apartments between Niagara Falls Boulevard and the Erie–Niagara borderline for a 61-year-old female “in a sickle episode, does have a cardiac history”. Units were on location within seven minutes; the patient had a documented cardiac history. A routine ALS-priority call handled without drama, but worth a named bulletin given the specific medical context.


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

Amherst PD · 19:32

Five Words From Amherst PD: "The Deer's Fine. Close It Out."

Somewhere in Amherst on Saturday night, a deer was — in the eyes of dispatch — the subject of an active call. At 19:32, the responding officer ended whatever it was with the most economical wildlife after-action report in the history of public-safety radio: “The deer's fine. Close it out” The transcript offers nothing about how the deer arrived, where it stood, or what made it the object of an Amherst patrol unit's attention. That ambiguity is the entire charm. A deer was somewhere it shouldn't be; an officer looked at it; the deer was fine; the call was over.

Lockport · 17:51

Lockport Grandmother Falls Carrying a Pot of Boiling Water

Niagara County Fire Control dispatched the City of Lockport EMS to 97 Spalding Street, between Washburn Street and Robinson Place, just before 17:51 for the kind of call that makes a dispatcher pause before reading the next line: “An old age female fell while carrying a pot of boiling water” The transcript then declares the patient was “bleeding from the iron pustule”, which is almost certainly Whisper's best attempt at “the iron pot's spout” — a phrase that improves rather than diminishes by being grammatically impossible. The patient was conscious; ALS responded.

Amherst PD · 19:10

Child Locked in a Lincoln in Amherst; AAA Cleans It Up for $7,000

Amherst PD took a call from Carol at 19:10 for “child locked in a vehicle”; three minutes later the radio surfaced what was almost certainly a related plate readout, then a $7,000 figure, then a dispatcher's terse “Number 7, AAA's been notified”. The complainant and registered owner was identified on the air as Nicole Ramos, with a juvenile inside a Lincoln-Nora-Tom registration. No injuries broadcast, no transport — just the worst three minutes of a parent's Saturday handled in the most boring way possible.

Amherst PD · 15:06

"He's Walking to Buffalo": Cart-Pushing Pilgrim Last Seen on Niagara Falls Boulevard

At 15:06 Amherst PD asked a unit to “check the area of White Jackal Cemetery, 3210 Niagara Falls Boulevard for the homeless male pushing a shopping cart walking southbound” — the radio assigned the address as “3210 Niagara Falls Boulevard,” though the transcript inexplicably renders the cemetery as “White Jackal Cemetery,” which is not a real cemetery in any plane of existence and which we record here exclusively because we cannot bring ourselves to leave it out. The dispatcher's response was the calmest summary of the situation imaginable: “So he's walking to Buffalo”. No follow-up was broadcast; presumably he made it.

Niagara Falls hotels · 18:09

Niagara Region Shuttle Dispatcher Negotiates a Baseball Pickup Live On-Air

Embassy Control — the shuttle dispatcher for the cluster of Niagara Falls hotels along the Embassy Suites / Ramada / Wyndham strip — had a small operational crisis at 18:09 when the baseball-game shuttle was abruptly cancelled, then re-confirmed, then re-clarified: “You said pick up at baseball and bring it back to the Ramada and not vice versa, right?” The exchange ended with a 10-4 and the very faint feeling that nobody on the channel was entirely sure which direction the shuttle was supposed to be pointed.

Amherst Fire · 17:41

Lawnmower Trips a Fire Alarm; Crew Stands Down Without Incident

Amherst Fire took an alarm activation at 17:41 that turned out to be the most North-Amherst explanation possible: a homeowner was mowing the lawn and tripped the sensor. The transmission — “Okay, he's mowing our lawn, wait a second service” — reads like a chief dictating his own clearance note. No equipment dispatched, no patient, no fire; a brief reminder that on a 75-degree Saturday afternoon, the most dangerous thing in the suburbs is the riding mower in a sensor's line of sight.

Maritime Ops · 22:57

Coast Guard Posts a July-3 Fireworks Safety Zone for Rocky River, Ohio

Marine Channel 22A pushed a long, scratchy Coast Guard safety broadcast just before 23:00 announcing that the Coast Guard expects to enforce a “one-mile-radius safety zone in Rocky River, Ohio for the yacht-club fireworks on July 3rd” from 21:50 to 22:00 hours that night, with a paired transit notice the Sector Buffalo radio room reads to mariners across Lake Erie. A reminder that holiday-week boating chatter is about to displace the rest of the marine-band traffic for the next two weeks.


Regional BlotterBeyond the Northtowns — WNY at large

Buffalo · BFD

RESOLVED

Overdose Call for 20-Year-Old at Humboldt Parkway and Fillmore

Buffalo Fire dispatched an EMS unit to Humboldt Parkway and Fillmore Avenue at 21:46 for a 20-year-old female overdose — a routine, regrettably-frequent call type for the city's east side. Patient was reachable on arrival; level 1 response, no command-rank presence, no transport detail broadcast.

Town of Hamburg · Chestnut Ridge Park

RESOLVED

90-Year-Old Found Not Alert at Chestnut Ridge Park Shelter 17

Town of Hamburg dispatched Armor H and ambulance crews at 15:51 to Chestnut Ridge Park, Shelter 17 — 6121 Chestnut Ridge Road, off Newton — for a 90-year-old female not alert. The call landed in the middle of a 75-degree summer afternoon at a popular park; no further detail on outcome was broadcast in the window.

Other Calls of Note

[16:09]Lewiston · NC FD First-floor smoke-detector activation at River Shore Incorporated, 3107 Lower Mountain Road — between Townline Road and Bear Road — cleared as no fire found.
[17:09]Orchard Park · OPFD Commercial fire alarm activation at McDonald's, 3232 Orchard Park Road; alarm-company update confirmed a manager on site — false trip.
[15:30]East Aurora · EAFD Zone-1 general fire alarm activation at 785 Quaker Road, between Grover and Davis; confirmed false alarm on engine-1 arrival.
[16:35]Town of Hamburg · Colden Colden units dispatched to 10530 Holland Glenwood Road for an 85-year-old male with possible stroke and one-sided numbness.
[18:54]Lockport · NC FD EMS call to Burger King at 5720 South Transit Road for a 50-year-old patient — detail trailed off as units were assigned.
[17:26]Clarence · Mill Creek Drive Clarence Center 9-3 dispatched to 8700 Mill Creek Drive, between Shamrock Lane and Creek Haven Drive, for an EMS call; Twin City 242 staged.
[16:41]Cheektowaga PD Harassment complaint at 142 Griffith Street; complainant on scene with the subject when units arrived.
[18:30]Buffalo · BFD Activated commercial fire alarm at 391 Washington Street, the Lafayette Hotel; engines 1 and 3, line 2, line 4 — cleared shortly after, no smoke.
[19:22]Amherst PD · Ulta Shoplifting suspect description broadcast at Ulta — Hispanic female in pink hat, purple pants, gray shirt, pink backpack; subject taken into custody at 19:30.

Editor’s Note

A quiet long-summer-Saturday afternoon and overnight on the scanners — mostly EMS calls for falls and palpitations, a steady drip of alarm-company false alarms, and the kind of small, vivid moments that only Western New York radio traffic produces (a deer pronounced fine, a child locked in a Lincoln, and a Lockport grandmother who fell while carrying a pot of boiling water). Amherst PD opened the window with a possible groping at a Williamsville bathroom corridor and closed it past midnight with the usual collection of CO trips and faulty smokes. No working fires, no fatalities, no Tier Alpha hits.

Daily Gem

The deer's fine. Close it out.”

— Amherst PD unit, 19:32

By the Numbers

Segments
2,116
Active systems
28
Busiest hour
18:00–19:00 (Amherst PD + Erie County / BFD)
Regional Breaking
0
Updates
0
By Agency (top 5)
BucketSegs
Police720
Fire / EMS540
Airport / aviation176
Hotel / shuttle / taxi167
Rail / maritime127
By Area (top 5)
BucketSegs
Williamsville & Amherst666
Other Erie County352
Niagara County283
Buffalo164
Outer counties104

Agency and area buckets are estimated from ProScan channel attributions and may double-count cross-jurisdictional traffic; treat as directional rather than exact.

The WNY Listening Post · Sunday, June 21, 2026 · A.M. Edition · Vol. I, No. 43
Compiled from public radio scanner traffic via the WNY Listening Post automated pipeline. Transcriptions are AI-generated and may contain errors; verify names and details before action.
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