The WNY Listening Post

Two-Car Crash at Salt & Keller Sends an Unconscious Patient and Four Others to Ambulances; Sheriffs Were First on the Air¹²

Amherst Fire dispatched a motor-vehicle accident at Salt Road and Keller Road in Clarence at 1:05 p.m. with airbags reported deployed.¹ Within ninety seconds the sheriffs were “now reporting that there is an unconscious patient in the area,” and a second ambulance was rolled.²

By 1:15 p.m. Amherst Fire confirmed “two cars involved, five patients,” with Clarence 9 approving the additional ambulance.³ The call ran cleanly through dispatch from the initial airbag broadcast to the final patient count in under eleven minutes — one of the cleaner multi-patient call timelines of the morning.

A Snyder Lawnmower Clips a Gas Meter at 369 North Forest Road; National Fuel Shuts the Main Off and Holds the Scene for Forty Minutes⁴⁵⁶

At 11:46 a.m. Amherst Fire toned Snyder to 369 North Forest Road, between Morningside Lane and Briar Lane, for “a gas meter that was struck on the side of the house — there is an odor and hissing.”⁴ Patrol on scene clarified the mechanism: “A lawnmower struck a gas leader,” not just a leak.⁵ By 11:54 the meter was “not attached to the house” and “definitely hissing,” with crews routed in via a tight approach off North Forest.⁶ National Fuel arrived, shut the main off, and at 12:28 p.m. dispatch closed it out: “The scene will be left with National Fuel for repairs.”⁷

Second Five-Patient Crash of the Day, This One at 2105 Maple in the Maple Compton Gardens Lot — A Child With Minor Facial Injuries⁸⁹

Amherst Fire announced “in transit, motor vehicle accident, 2105 Maple” at 2:13 p.m.,⁸ with Amherst PD adding from the lot: “Maple Compton Gardens, a child with some minor facial injuries.”⁹ By 2:16 p.m. Intensa 9-1 was on location reporting five patients and Main-Transit was paged a second ambulance.¹⁰ Two Clarence-Amherst multi-patient MVAs in roughly an hour was the defining traffic of the morning.

Car Versus Pole in the Parking Lot of Mr. Tomato Pie, 3055 Niagara Falls Boulevard — Patient a 70-Year-Old Woman With Back Pain¹¹¹²

Amherst Fire dispatched at 7:42 a.m. on “car versus pole in the parking lot of Mr. Tomato Pie, 3055 Niagara Falls Boulevard.”¹¹ Amherst PD on arrival: “No, I don’t think many injuries here.”¹² Fire upgraded the patient to a 70-year-old female with back pain, transported by Twin City; Ellicott Creek crew was clear by 7:54 a.m.¹³

89-Year-Old Williamsville Woman With Cardiac History Suffers Chest Pain Sitting in a Vehicle at 496 Heim Road¹⁴

At 1:41 p.m. Amherst Fire toned Williamsville to 496 Heim Road, between Spicebush Lane and Randwood Drive, for an 89-year-old female “in the driveway in a vehicle” with a cardiac history complaining of chest pain.¹⁴ Kephart 911 acknowledged responding; standard ALS workup followed.¹⁵

12:32 p.m.: Mulch Fire at Capital Management, 160 Lawrenceville Drive, Suite 106 — Adds to the Running Mulch-Fire Tally That Took Up Most of Yesterday Afternoon¹⁶

Main-Transit was dispatched to investigate a mulch fire at the Capital Management property between Youngs Road and Earhart Drive at 12:32 p.m.¹⁶ Yesterday’s a.m. brief logged three separate Amherst mulch fires inside two hours; the season’s ground-cover-and-cigarette pattern continues.

7:39 a.m. Panic Alarm at UBMD OBGYN, 1020 Youngs Road — Cleared by APD¹⁷

Amherst PD took an alarm at the UBMD OBGYN office at 1020 Youngs Road as “a panic alarm” at 7:39 a.m.¹⁷ A two-unit response cleared without incident.

Amherst Fire’s Lenders Crew Goes Off the Air to “Be Out Peeing for a Little While, Doing Some Repairs” — Twenty-Four Hours After EAFD Asked the Question Twice¹⁸

At 12:27 p.m. an Amherst Fire crew — the “Lenders,” per the closing line — broadcast that they would be “out peeing for a little while, doing some repairs, and then we’re going to be in service.”¹⁸ Dispatch acknowledged calmly; Lenders were back in service at 12:28.¹⁹ The phrasing rhymes, perhaps not coincidentally, with the East Aurora Fire dispatcher’s twice-asked “Are you peeing?” that defined the front page of this morning’s edition. Whether this is the same hot-mic tradition migrating across departments or simply WNY firefighters using the same euphemism for the same reason, the radio refuses to clarify.

“Something’s Meowing at the Station.” — Cheektowaga PD, 1:14 p.m., No Further Details Provided²⁰

Three full words from Cheektowaga PD at 1:14 p.m., immediately followed by “Go.” from a second officer.²⁰²¹ Whether the meowing was inside the station or outside, animate or audio, on a four-legged subject or a stuck patrol-car speaker, the channel never returned to the subject. The mystery cat is, for now, lost to history.

8:39 a.m. APD: 55 Melrose — Resident Reports a Neighbor Threw Eggs and Bread on the Driveway. Charges Declined. Subject “Going to Spend the Weekend With Her Boyfriend”²²²³

A complaint at 55 Melrose: “the resident has some eggs and bread thrown on the driveway, thinks it was a neighbor.”²² The clean-up plan was, evidently, to leave town for forty-eight hours: “She said she’s going to spend the weekend with her boyfriend.”²³ Patrol noted no charges and that the grandmother “does want her advised that she’s not welcome back at this residence.” Domestic baked-goods diplomacy at its most Williamsville.

12:31 p.m.: Welfare Check at Synergy Bariatrics, 30 North Union Road — “A Person Has Been Sleeping on the Picnic Table Since 7 in the Morning”²⁴

Amherst PD took a complaint that someone had been sleeping on the picnic table at the Synergy Bariatrics office on North Union Road since 7 a.m.²⁴ A patrol unit headed over; the call closed with a quiet “Love and coffee. Thanks, Drew.”²⁵

11:40 a.m. APD: “Classic Mix-Up Between a Dumpster and a Tree Branch” — Roadway Mostly Cleared, Town Notified for the Rest²⁶

A patrol unit reported a “classic mix-up between a dumpster and a tree branch” in the roadway, got most of the branch off the road, and asked dispatch to loop in the town for the rest.²⁶ Sometimes the brief writes itself.

11:29 a.m. APD on the 290 East: “One Caller Reports Geese in the Runway”²⁷

Amherst PD relayed a citizen call about geese on what was described, perhaps optimistically, as a runway on the 290 East between the Boulevard and the 290.²⁷ Translation: geese on the inner shoulder of I-290 near the Boulevard split.

10:07 a.m. CFD: Pine Hill 9 to the Third Floor for “Burnt Popcorn”; Maintenance Already Moving the Alarm Panel Up²⁸

Cheektowaga FD took the call and never had to raise an engine line. Pine Hill 9 and a rescue unit were paged but held on the road for Harlem Road in case anything escalated; the alarm was reset and the building was returned to service.²⁹

11:19 a.m. BFD Ch1: 43474 Michigan Avenue Alarm — “Set Off by Smoking in the Bathroom. Engine 10 Can Handle.”³⁰

Buffalo Fire’s engine-one crew confirmed maintenance had the panel and that a bathroom smoker had triggered the alarm.³⁰ The truck stayed in service.

8:42 a.m.: CFD Rescue and CD-131 to a Box-Truck Chemical Leak at the Hampton Inn, 1745 Walden Avenue; “Unknown Amount Spilled”³¹³²

CFD Dispatch sent rescue and a CD-131 hazmat unit to reports of a leaking box truck at the Hampton Inn between Anderson and Galleria.³¹ By 10:03 a.m. the building was evacuated and CFD reported “still nothing showing” on inspection.³²

9:25 a.m.: Allegany County Structure Fire at 11947 Cadwell Road, Centerville — Beechwood Crew Recommended³³

Wyoming County control passed the page on at 9:25 a.m. for a structure fire in Allegany County’s Centerville hamlet, calling out the Beechwood department to back West Fire Department on the response.³³

1:51 p.m.: Mercy Flight Helicopter Inbound to a Wyoming County Landing Zone, Five-Minute ETA, “Landing Zone Secure”³⁴

Wyoming Fire 1 talked the helicopter onto a low spot “southeast of the ambulance in the field” with a mild breeze at the base of the hill at 1:51 p.m.³⁴ Patient detail did not break onto the open channel.

10:55 a.m.: CFD — “Motor Vehicle Accident With Possible Injury, One Car Possible Entrapment” at Mario’s and Sons, 2755 Harlem Road³⁵

CFD Dispatch toned a one-vehicle MVA with possible entrapment outside the Mario and Sons body shop on Harlem Road; multi-unit response.³⁵

10:29 a.m.: Silver Creek MFD Repaging an EMS Call for a 71-Year-Old Male Stroke Patient at 113 Main Street³⁶

South-Erie Fire Control repeated the page to Seneca MFD: stroke rate 10-0, 71-year-old male at 113 Main Street, Silver Creek — transported to Mercy.³⁶

12:16 p.m.: NC FD Dispatch — 50-Year-Old Female Actively Seizing at the Front Counter of 6550 Robinson Road, Wheatfield³⁷

Mercy EMS was AOS-recommended; the call was put on NTFD TAC-1.³⁷

1:48 p.m.: Cheektowaga PD — “Pretty Confident It’s a Hit and Run” at Eggertson Theatre; Suspect Plate Henry Union Edwards Logged³⁸

Officers caught a partial plate before the phone connection dropped on the complainant and passed it through dispatch.³⁸

Other Calls of Note

• 8:58 a.m.: OPFD EMS dispatched to 2766 Engle Road, Orchard Park — routine in-service by 9:07 a.m.³⁹

• 9:34 a.m.: Snyder EMS dispatched cold response to 4574 Harlem Road for a 66-year-old man with abdominal pain; backyard smolder at the same address found unattended and wet down by Williamsville 941 at 9:41 a.m.⁴⁰⁴¹

• 9:37 a.m.: Snyder EMS at 467 John James Audubon Parkway, Amherst Ridge Senior Apartments, Apartment 310.⁴²

• 9:43 a.m.: Town of Hamburg FD page to 5668 Old Lake Shore Road for trouble breathing.⁴³

• 10:11 a.m.: Eggertsville FD to 51 Meadow Lee Drive at Community Services — living-room smoke detector, set off by cooking, reset.⁴⁴

• 11:33 a.m.: NC FD page — 89-year-old female “fell out of bed, called in by the dentist’s office” (an unusual reporting party).⁴⁵

• 12:09 p.m. & 12:13 p.m.: NC FD repeating tones for a 58-year-old male, COPD, shortness of breath at 2709 Transit Road, Room 121; no commercial agency available, repaged Miller Hose.⁴⁶

• 12:29 p.m.: EAFD — 73-year-old female on Bowen Road with chest pain, right-arm pain, clammy, recent onset.⁴⁷

• 1:10 p.m.: NC FD — 92-year-old male at 946 Walk Road, general weakness, difficulty breathing.⁴⁸

• 1:19 p.m.: South-Erie FD — 74-year-old female fell in the bathroom at the Attractive Supply Store, 205 South Cascade Drive.⁴⁹

• 1:25 p.m.: NC FD page at 1001 Lincoln Avenue, Route 162, for a female in her 70s.⁵⁰

• 7:08 – 7:30 a.m.: Cluster of routine calls including EC CW EMS at 9897 Utica Street, Lake Erie Beach (57-year-old female “cold with”); Amherst PD crash notification “just birds chirping” at 545 Tonawanda Creek; Clarence Center fire at 7075 Heisey Road, P. Martin & Lapp.⁵¹⁵²⁵³