Cheektowaga · Jackson Avenue · Missing Child

A Nonverbal 5-Year-Old Goes Missing From a Jackson Avenue Home, and Cheektowaga Fans Out

A language barrier slowed the search as officers, working from a child spotted at a neighbor's door, raced to confirm the family and the boy.

At about 1:49 PM, Cheektowaga dispatch took a call from 130 Jackson Avenue reporting that a five-year-old was missing, with a standing warning on the address that the child is nonverbal. The run had been building for several minutes, with officers already checking nearby houses and a Sunoco tip about a family that had just moved in on Roll.

Dispatch said there was “a bit of a language barrier”, leaving officers unable to immediately get the child's name; the mother was identified on the air and an older sibling was listed at the home. Cars converged on the address to verify the family and the warning, with one officer checking a boy found at a nearby house who looked familiar from school.

Buffalo · Porter Avenue · Senior High-Rise

Three Medical Crises in One Hour at a Porter Avenue Senior High-Rise, Capped by a Resuscitated Cardiac Arrest

Buffalo Fire crews ran call after call into Mary Agnes Manor, finishing with CPR and two shocks for a patient in cardiac arrest.

Buffalo Fire spent much of the late morning working 307 Porter Avenue, the Mary Agnes Manor senior high-rise between Prospect and Fargo. Beginning at about 9:45 AM, crews were dispatched to two separate chest-pain patients on upper floors, then returned a little after 10:00 AM for a possible overdose on another floor.

The run of calls culminated at about 10:31 AM with a cardiac arrest on the seventh floor. Engine 2 and a medic unit responded, started CPR, and delivered first and second shocks as the incident ran on the air for roughly ten minutes — a concentrated stretch of medical emergencies at a single building that kept engines and ambulances cycling through its lobby.

Chautauqua County · Jamestown · Missing Person

A Distraught Man's Empty Car Launches a K-9 Search Around Jamestown, Ending Safely at a Motel

Officers found the vehicle but not the driver, working a hundred-acre lot and Faulkner Park before the subject turned up at Hillside Suites.

Shortly after 8:30 AM, Jamestown officers located a vehicle tied to a distraught man near the 100-acre lot off Lakeview, but the car was empty. Dispatch sent backup and put the call out on screen, noting units were working the just-dropped welfare call as the search widened across the area.

Over roughly the next twenty minutes, the search drew multiple units and a K-9 through the hundred-acre lot and the Faulkner Park area. The man was ultimately located safely at Hillside Suites, closing out a morning search that began with nothing but an abandoned car.

Orleans County · East Shelby · Motorcycle Crash

A Motorcyclist Found Unresponsive After a Crash on the Orleans County Line Draws a Multi-Agency ALS Response

Pages went out for a second ambulance and equipment to Podunk and East Shelby Roads as crews from more than one jurisdiction converged.

At about 12:33 PM, fire-EMS paging put out a call for a motor-vehicle accident involving a motorcycle in the area of Podunk Road and East Shelby Road, with the rider reported “male down unresponsive”. A second ambulance and equipment were requested to the scene as the response spanned jurisdictions.

The crash drew an ALS-priority response with an Orleans County request, and companies worked the rural intersection in the minutes that followed. Dispatch was juggling a busy stretch of road calls, paging a separate two-car MVA with airbag deployment at West Center Street in the same window.

Buffalo · East Side · Armed Suspect Lookout

Buffalo Police Broadcast a Hunt for an Armed Man in a Black Nissan Altima After a Pistol Sighting

A 911 caller said he saw someone with a pistol, and officers chased conflicting vehicle descriptions across the East Side toward Broadway.

At about 12:07 PM, Buffalo police on the C-E districts channel broadcast that a caller had told 911 “he saw someone with a pistol”, tied to a vehicle described as a black Nissan Altima. Dispatch gave a plate and placed the vehicle near North Mauer approaching Broadway.

The lookout grew muddled as officers sorted competing descriptions — a correction to a silver minivan with an Ohio registration, then word that the minivan was not the right car, with the suspect said to have headed east of Sycamore. Units kept working the area, but the scanner carried no clean resolution before the window closed.

Hamburg · Methadone Run

Beat the Clock: An Officer Races a Man to His Methadone Dose Before the Clinic Shuts

At 10:30 AM, a Hamburg officer keyed up with a plan that was equal parts errand and mercy: “I'll be taking him up to get his methadone dose before they close”. No fanfare, no drama — just a cop watching the clock on someone else's behalf.

Buffalo · Ladder 13 · Overheating

Do You Have Ciminelli's Number? A Fire Truck Needs a Phone-a-Friend, Fast

At 2:01 PM, Buffalo Fire dispatch had an unusual request for Ladder 13: “Ladder 13, do you have Ciminelli's phone number?” — and the crew, gracious to the last, answered “Yes ma'am, I'll be calling him”. The reason emerged minutes later: asked to take a slow ride back to the shop, Ladder 13 radioed that it was “completely out of coolant, it's overheating”, which tends to make personal phone numbers suddenly urgent.

Buffalo · Burn Barrel

The Case of the Self-Solving Fire: A Burn Barrel Behind 434

At about 2:23 PM, Buffalo Fire logged one of the shorter incidents of the day: a burn barrel behind 434, reported, checked, and closed in the same breath. “Resident advised, fire's out”, the company radioed — a whole fire call that started and finished before anyone had to unroll a hose.

Cheektowaga · Let It Ride

Dispatcher's Call: Let the Grownups Sort It Out Themselves

Around 10:46 AM, a Cheektowaga unit radioed that it was clearing one stop and lining up another, and dispatch made an executive decision to wave the car off a dispute entirely — “you can 66, they're going to handle it on their own”. Sometimes the best police work is knowing when not to go.

Jamestown · The Empty Car

Found the Vehicle, Lost the Driver: A Morning Search Begins With an Empty Car

At about 8:32 AM, Jamestown dispatch summed up the morning's mystery in a single line to a backup unit: crews working a welfare call at the hundred-acre lot “located the vehicle, but the vehicle's empty”. The driver turned up safe at a motel hours later — but for a while, the only lead was a car with nobody in it.

Buffalo · Arbor Lane · Medical Call

Four-Person Unconscious Call on Arbor Lane Ends in a DOA

At 9:02 AM, Buffalo Fire sent Engine 4 and additional equipment to 88 Arbor Lane, between Hancock and Eden, apartment 4, for a four-person unconscious call that dispatch upgraded within a minute to a possible cardiac arrest.

Engine 4 arrived on location a few minutes later, and by 9:09 AM crews radioed back that the patient was “obvious, DOA”, with dispatch telling them only to notify if the body needed to be moved.

Buffalo · Ryland · Welfare Check

Mother's Call Sends Police to Home Where Suicidal Son Has Access to Unlocked Gun

At 12:28 PM, Buffalo Police relayed a welfare check on Ryland after a mother called to report her son was home alone with suicidal thoughts and that there was an unlocked gun in the home, which she said was kept in a closet.

The dispatcher told responding officers the man was also described as an addict who had said he would kill himself because his mother would not give him money for drugs; fire crews and an ambulance were already staging as officers headed to the scene.

Buffalo · Decker Street · Found Weapon

Children Find Gun and Bullet in Decker Street Backyard

At 11:32 AM, Buffalo Police dispatch logged a gun call at 108 Decker Street after a resident reported finding a handgun and a bullet in the backyard. Dispatchers said children had discovered the items and that it was not known who left them there or when.

Buffalo · Sunnyside Place · Welfare Check

Mother Reports Bipolar Teen Missing for Days, Off Her Medication

At 11:26 AM, Buffalo Police dispatch sent a unit to 56 Sunnyside Place to check the welfare of a 17-year-old identified on the radio as Adriana, after her mother — who said she does not live at the address — reported she had not seen the teen there in days.

The mother told dispatch the teen is bipolar, currently off her medication, and was supposed to be staying at the home with her grandmother.

Buffalo · Gold Street · Smoke Investigation

Preliminary Smoke Call on Gold Street Escalates to Level 3 Before Ending at a Burn Barrel

At 2:17 PM, Buffalo Fire dispatched Engine 28, Engine 22, Ladder 14 and Battalion 43 on a preliminary signal to investigate smoke reported behind 443 Gold Street, between Ryman and King, after a caller said she could see smoke behind her home; dispatchers noted the structure directly behind her would be 438 Davey Street.

As companies converged on the call, dispatch upgraded every unit assigned to Gold Street to a Level 3 response.

Engine 28 arrived reporting an odor of smoke and worked its way toward the Davey Street side before radioing the source: “looks like a burn barrel in the back”, with crews moving in to investigate further.

Buffalo · Seneca & Hamburg · Bicyclist Struck

Cyclist Struck by Truck at Seneca and Hamburg

At 2:30 PM, Buffalo Fire sent Engine 32 to Seneca and Hamburg for a bicyclist struck by a truck.

The engine reported on scene two minutes later; no further word on the cyclist's condition was broadcast on the channel.

Depew · Walden Avenue · Domestic

Caller Says Friend Being Beaten by Parents, Watched It Live Over FaceTime

At 11:47 AM, Depew Police dispatched units to 3284 Walden Avenue after a third party called to report that a friend living at the address was being beaten by her parents, telling dispatch she was on FaceTime with the friend and witnessing it happen.

Dispatch told responding units the caller had no further information and could give only the alleged victim's first name, not a last name.

Wyoming County · Attica Correctional Facility · Attempted Hanging

Inmate Found Conscious After Attempted Hanging at Attica Correctional

At 10:50 AM, Wyoming County Fire dispatchers requested a medic unit to Attica Correctional Facility for a 35-year-old man described as the victim of an attempted hanging; he was reported conscious at the time of the call.

Medic 83, already committed to another call nearby, took the assignment and radioed it was en route toward Attica shortly after.

Genesee County · Roanoke Apple Farms · Injury MVA

Second Request Sends Mutual Aid to Injury Crash at Roanoke Apple Farms

At 9:40 AM, Genesee County Fire dispatch issued a second request for additional resources to a motor vehicle accident with injury at Roanoke Apple Farms, 6370 East Bethany-Le Roy Road, between Roanoke and Transit roads.

Erie County · Thruway · Person on Overhead Sign

Trooper Recalled to Thruway Breakdown After Report of Man Atop Overhead Sign

At 2:00 PM, a Thruway dispatcher called Trooper Buffalo 7481 back to a vehicle he had just left after a report that the driver had climbed onto an overhead sign and was sitting on it; the report was quickly clarified as the man “sitting on the guide rail, next to his truck”.

Trooper 573 reported on scene near milepost 216 a few minutes later as the call was logged under case number C1400.