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Williamsville · Heim Road overpass

Something Sticking Up Out of the Heim Road Overpass at Dawn

Just before sunrise, Amherst PD started taking calls about a hazard on the Heim Road[*] overpass: dispatch put it out as “a structural piece of the bridge that’s sticking up through the roadway.” A second caller a couple of minutes later reported the same thing from southbound, adding “it’s quite large”.

Officers were headed in to look for it as the morning rush built. No accidents had yet been called for the same spot at the time of the brief, but the right lane was flagged as the problem side.

Around the NeighborhoodThe Northtowns, call by call

East Amherst · Hopkins / North French

RESOLVED

Two-Car Crash Pins Drivers at Hopkins and North French

Late Wednesday afternoon, Amherst PD started looking for a black Dodge and a gray vehicle at the intersection of Hopkins Road[*] and North French Road[*]; about 20 seconds later Amherst Fire put it out as a motor vehicle accident at Hopkins and North French, two cars involved and occupants unable to get out.

Twin City staged from Transit and Clarence Center, and a second ambulance was requested within minutes; dispatch confirmed “at least two that want to be transported” as the scene worked itself out.

Snyder · Travers Boulevard

ONGOING

Father-Son Fight Escalates Outside 114 Travers Boulevard

At 6:43 p.m., Amherst PD took a call for a physical domestic in front of 114 Travers Boulevard[*] between a father and son. Dispatch relayed an alarming detail from the caller: “I think the dad is currently hitting the counter and the son is saying, I can’t breathe”.

Minutes later officers were told the fight was still physical, that the son had reportedly tried to run away and break into a nearby office building, and that the mother was now one of the involved parties.

Cars responding were eventually told they could slow it down and approach from the side at 120, suggesting the scene was contained but still active when the brief closed.

East Amherst · Oak Ridge Drive

RESOLVED

An Actual Fire in the Oven on Kingsview Road

Just after 9 p.m., East Amherst was dispatched to investigate an oven fire at 67 Kingsview Road[*], between Oak Ridge Drive and Field Gate Court.

Five minutes in, the on-scene company keyed up to confirm “an active fire in the oven” — noting it was contained, with a check for extension to follow.

Amherst · a park, somewhere

ONGOING

A 13-Year-Old Calls Police on a Pair of Women in a Red SUV

Late Wednesday afternoon, Amherst PD took a call from a 13-year-old who said some females at the park threatened to come back with a gun. The caller believed she had seen them driving around afterward in “a red SUV”.

Officers fanned out for the SUV; no further dispatch confirmed a sighting in this window, so the threat’s seriousness is for the next watch to sort out.

Eggertsville · 131 Princeton Avenue

RESOLVED

“Unwelcome Guests” Call at a Princeton Avenue Address With History

At 7:44 p.m., Amherst PD logged a call for unwelcome guests at 131 Princeton Avenue[*], apartment 4, where a male caller wanted somebody removed and then hung up.

Dispatch flagged it as a Donald Barnes residence, with an officer offering colleagues a vivid memory cue from a recent night shift: “we were just over there the other night on night shift when he stabbed the female half that he’s always with”. A separate radio update noted Donald Barnes did not appear to still be at the holding center.


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

Williamsville · a roving cohort

The Pre-Summer Pack of 20 Goes Restaurant-Hopping and Rock-Throwing

At 4:27 p.m., a manager named Marissa flagged Amherst PD: a group of 15 to 20 kids had piled into a restaurant on the 5311 Main Street[*] block, caused a “disturbance,” and then drifted off toward a nearby park.

Two and a half hours later — plausibly the same cohort, plausibly a regional youth-energy peak — officers got a group of kids causing a disturbance at the fireworks tent, where they “started to throw rocks over there”. The brief leaves Williamsville’s sidewalks to the next watch.

Amherst · 675 Alberta Drive

The Wegmans Crew Loss Prevention Thinks Hit JCPenney Last Time

Just after 6:30 p.m., Amherst PD started chasing a suspicious group still circling the Alberta Drive[*] Wegmans lot — a white female driver, a black male passenger, and a black female getting into the backseat.

The juicy detail came a beat later: “LP says last time they did this, they also stole from JCPenney”. The plate on the Ford Expedition came back to a Michael Turley.

Cheektowaga · someone’s pool

Cheektowaga’s First Truly Summer-Coded Call: Kids Over the Fence and Into the Pool

On a warm Wednesday evening, a Cheektowaga PD unit keyed up to ask dispatch to stand by, then reported with the resigned cadence of a beat cop in late June: “get a couple of calls on people jumping the fence going to the pool and other kids”.

Buffalo · the dispatch lexicon

And Now, a New Genre: Buffalo PD’s “Domestic Loose”

Buried in the late-evening Buffalo PD chatter, a single, perfect, fragment of a sentence: “I’ll change this call to domestic loose”. The audio offers no further illumination. We choose, for the dignity of the genre, not to ask.


Regional BlotterBeyond the Northtowns — WNY at large

Clarence · 9500 Main Street

RESOLVED

Water-Flow Alarm at 9500 Main Pulls Clarence Units for an Hour

At 6:59 p.m., Clarence units were dispatched to a fire alarm activation at 9500 Main Street[*], between Goodrich Road[*] and Gunnville Road[*], with the alarm company reporting a water-flow alarm. A second transmission moved everyone to a working channel as crews stacked up.

About 40 minutes later, the on-scene radio cleared it with the kind of finish that’s good for the Wednesday-night dispatch logs: “last we activated ahead in suite 600, nothing found, an alarm issue”, the fire inspector left with the scene, and units went back in service at 19:40.

Orchard Park · a two-story commercial structure

ONGOING

Overnight Smoke in the Building Brings Orchard Park to Mutual-Aid Hold

Around 2:42 a.m., OPFD dispatched on smoke-in-the-building at a two-story commercial structure (the address rendered as “3144 Spark Road” in the transcript, with surrounding chatter suggesting a mis-transcription of the cross street; we have not validated against a Town of Orchard Park list and have left it in the source location only).

By 2:45 a.m., the dispatcher confirmed the fire was “isolated to be one unit at this time, holding out of town mutual aid” with first engine hot — a step short of a working-fire declaration but worth a watch.

Cheektowaga · Cleveland Drive welfare check

RESOLVED

Cleveland Drive Welfare Check Brings a Brother’s Threat

Just after 1 a.m., Cheektowaga PD took a welfare-check call on a Cleveland Drive[*] address from a daughter worried her brother was taking advantage of their mother. A stay-away OP was already in place.

The radio detail that pushed the call out of routine and toward standoff territory: “the 10-100 is very aggressive and has threatened to start itself on fire”. Officers continued with caution; no escalation to a barricaded-subject incident registered in this window.

Niagara Falls · mid-call airing out

RESOLVED

Niagara Falls FD Airs Out a Building After a Power Washer Runs Indoors

Just past 1 a.m., NFFD keyed up mid-investigation with a textbook CO setup: “from a gas-powered power washer being run inside, so we’ve got the doors open, we’ve got some fans on, we’re trying to get some fresh air in here”. No transports were logged in the brief’s window.

Other Calls of Note

[23:50]Buffalo · 1322 Broadway oven fire Engine 22 and Engine 3 with Ladder 14 dispatched on a reported oven fire at 1322 Broadway, cross streets Milburn and Rommel; crews tried to shut the gas off on arrival.
[15:16]Clarence · 4530 Ransom Road · EMS Lift / fall call at Montefiore Heights apartments, 4530 Ransom Road between Bergtold Road and Stage Road, apartment 208; medical alarm company reported a 92-year-old female fell with a bed injury.
[18:29]Amherst · 675 Alberta at Wegmans · EMS EMS call to 675 Alberta Drive at the Wegmans between Amsterdam and Maple; Twin City handled.
[05:28]Amherst · I-290 eastbound · deer struck Deer struck on I-290 eastbound between the I-990 and the Millersport interchange; minor vehicle damage reported on the shoulder.
[20:18]Hamburg · Woodlawn · Council Apartments alarm Commercial fire alarm activation at Council Apartments, 4288 Lake Avenue, Woodlawn — community-room smoke detector (Zone 12).
[21:09]Williamsville · the AC unit Amherst PD took a property-damage/harassment complaint involving an air-conditioning unit; the complainant was “pretty irate and just stormed off,” officer guessing she didn’t want to prosecute.
[03:02]Hamburg · 4363 Chisholm Trail · paramedic Third-party caller reported an 80-year-old male with difficulty breathing at 4363 Chisholm Trail off Robin; paramedic response.

Editor’s Note

Wednesday’s late afternoon and overnight ran hot in the home zone without ever boiling over: a structural piece sticking up through the Heim Road overpass at dawn, a two-car MVA at Hopkins and North French with occupants pinned, a father-son fight in front of 114 Travers, and an oven fire on Kingsview that stayed in the oven. The fun ran through pre-summer youth energy — a 20-strong pack moving from Main Street restaurants to the fireworks tent — and Cheektowaga’s first truly summer-coded call of the season: kids over the fence and into someone’s pool.

Daily Gem

I’ll change this call to domestic loose.”

— BPD Ch.2 D-W, 23:51

By the Numbers

Segments
3,261
Active systems
27
Busiest hour
18:00–19:00 (Amherst PD + Fire on the Travers domestic and the 9500 Main alarm)
Regional Breaking
0
Updates
0
By Agency (top 5)
BucketSegs
Airport / aviation1066
Police720
Fire / EMS612
Hotel / shuttle / taxi320
Rail / maritime184
By Area (top 5)
BucketSegs
Niagara County1110
Williamsville & Amherst760
Clarence410
Buffalo212
Other Erie County232

Agency & area buckets are estimated from channel-context inferences over 3,261 segments and are approximate.

[*] = 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 · Thursday, June 25, 2026 · A.M. Edition · Vol. I, No. 47
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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