Amherst · Cross Point Business Park

CO₂ Leak Empties the IMAX Plant on John Glenn Drive

An 8:31 fire-alarm activation at Plant No. 2 turned into a hazmat investigation with all Ellicott Creek units and mutual-aid pumpers ordered to the north side of the property.

The first alarm dropped at 185 John Glenn Drive, between Creekside and Commerce, as a routine fire-alarm activation at IMAX. Ellicott Creek 9 arrived within four minutes and reported “we're investigating either a CO2 leak or one of the pressures — keep everybody coming” — a much bigger call than the box originally implied.

Amherst Fire Dispatch immediately jumped the assignment to Channel 2, sent Ellicott Creek's entire complement to the north side, and staged incoming units at 401 Creekside. “A steam or CO2 leak, and we want all Ellicott Creek units to respond to the north side” the on-scene officer told the dispatcher a few minutes later, asking for pumper coverage from Swormville and East Amherst both ways up John Glenn.

The plant — a Cross Point contract manufacturer whose Plant No. 2 sits behind the main office — was ordered evacuated for the duration of the investigation. Units cleared shortly after 9:00 AM once the source was contained, but the incident tied up half of Ellicott Creek's roster for most of the morning.

Amherst · Wehrle & Roycroft

Two-Car Crash Sends One Vehicle Into a Tree at Wehrle and Roycroft

Multiple patients, three ambulances requested; Twin City 242, 226 and 248 all pulled into the run.

Amherst Fire Dispatch put units on the air at 1:27 PM for a two-vehicle collision at Wehrle Drive and Roycroft, with a companion Main Street/Park Club Lane wing off Twin City 242. The first report on the box was “two vehicles, one of them got sent into a tree”, and within ninety seconds command was calling for a third ambulance to work the multiple-patient scene.

TCA units 242, 226 and 248 all rolled in with Eggert and Edward Boyd crew ID numbers logged on the air — a full-house EMS response for a corner that normally moves a lot faster than it wrecks. All patients were transported; no fatalities came across the box before the incident cleared.

Buffalo East Side · East Delavan

Woman Stabbed in Face and Body on East Delavan; Suspect Flees on Foot Toward Delta Sonic

BPD C-E cars closed on 1556 East Delavan; AMR South went hot; the suspect, a thin Black woman in a blue jean jacket and pink and white hat, was last seen westbound past Delta Sonic.

The call landed on BPD's C-E district channel just before 11:47 AM as a female in a vehicle. Within minutes it upgraded when the responding car keyed the mic: “she's stabbed in the face and the body, still waiting on plate or description on the vehicle”. AMR South 278 was ordered hot for a stabbing at 1556 East Delavan, with police and fire already en route.

The victim, described on the air as a thin 5′8″ woman living at 1516 East Delavan, was worked and transported. The suspect was another woman — light blue jean jacket, pink and white hat, black romper — who fled the scene on foot and was last seen headed west past Delta Sonic. A neighbor told the responding car she did not want to venture into the nearby Langfield project area.

Buffalo · East Side

Violent Domestic on Gilbert: Man Rams Buick to the Curb, Smashes Window, Charges Inside

By the time the second car cleared for backup, the household had him pinned on the floor.

BPD District A took the initial page on 137 Gilbert at 11:55 AM for what dispatch flagged as a violent domestic. The complainant described a man pulling up in a Buick, breaking a house window, then running inside; the on-scene officer relayed to the box that “a subject male pulled up, smashed a house window and is now inside being held down for their info” by the time the second unit arrived to help sort out the scene.

Amherst · 3290 Sheridan (Walmart)

“Extremely 10-12”: Five-Minute Rant from a Woman in the Walmart Lot

The department’s ninth call to 3290 Sheridan Drive in ninety days; the caller refused a name, refused a location, then walked into the store.

Amherst PD spent a few minutes at mid-morning trying to make sense of a one-caller phone map to the southwest corner of the Walmart at 3290 Sheridan Drive. The reporting officer told the box the woman was “extremely 10-12 and ranting for about five minutes” but refused to give her name, her location, or even a coherent complaint. When the phone finally dropped, she appeared to have simply gone into the store.

It is the ninth address hit at this Walmart lot in the trailing ninety days — the same corner that produced last week's Porsche-lean call and July's overdose page. The store lot has become a de facto Amherst mental-health backdrop as much as a retail parking pad.

Amherst · REI at 1701 Niagara Falls Blvd

“Possible Overdose” at REI Turns Into a Woman Walking to Barnes & Noble

North Bailey Fire and Amherst PD staged for a female slumped in a car; the caller found her, chatted, and said she was fine.

The 9:05 AM page from Amherst Fire Dispatch was blunt: North Bailey, second call, EMS, 1701 Niagara Falls Boulevard, in front of REI, “a female inside a vehicle at REI for a possible overdose”. Amherst PD followed with the same location and a possible-overdose flag.

Within nine minutes the tone had swung all the way around: the caller had spoken to the woman, who said she was fine and was walking over to Barnes & Noble on the same Target Plaza pad. The responding officer circled to make sure, described her as wearing all black, and cleared the run without an EMS transport.

Amherst · 820 Ridgely Road

Hotel Lobby Gets Its Own Repentant Guest: “He Wants to Turn Himself In”

White polo, gray shorts, buzzed hair, and enough intoxication to drag his feet on the tile.

Amherst PD was called to 820 Ridgely Road for a man who was, per the responding officer, “refusing to leave the lobby, isn't a guest, seems to be intoxed and can't move, saying he has aptitudes and wants to turn himself in”. He was described as a 5′4″ white male in a green and white polo and gray shorts, dragging his feet when he walked, insistent that he had “aptitudes” and needed to be arrested. The officer took him at his word and cleared him out of the lobby.

Amherst · 127 Morningstar Court

The Suspicious White Van on Morningstar Turns Out to Be the First Birthday

Two hours parked, one black male, one white female inside — and a whole lot of Oliver’s catering trays.

A neighbor at 127 Morningstar Court called in a white van that had been sitting since 2:00 PM with a Black man and a White woman inside. The responding officer walked over, took a look, and radioed back the mystery: “It's an Oliver's catering van. They'll be here for a while. They have a one-year-old birthday party tonight”

Amherst · Life-Alert on Rapid SOS

Medical Alert Insists It’s on Campus Drive. CPS Insists It’s on Headstrom.

Neither the caller nor the pendant was where either said — and both were less lost than her Life-Alert.

An Amherst PD dispatcher spent the better part of a minute walking a partner through the day’s most human tech glitch: “the female from 109-D, Brock did call earlier to advise that she would be testing but she didn't actually put it into test mode, and when the call came in it was mapping on Campus Drive on Rapid SOS and CPS got an address of 236 Headstrom, so her device isn't accurate wherever it's getting its data” That kind of divergence — Rapid SOS handing over one address, the CAD system displaying another, both several blocks apart — is why medical-alert devices with GPS remain a dispatcher’s occasional adversary.

Amherst · North Ivyhurst

The Rochester Airbnb Assault That Turned Out to Be an Ice Cube

Yesterday’s “struck in the head” complaint on North Ivyhurst was, on review, exactly what she reported at the time: someone lobbed a cube of ice.

Amherst PD returned to the 484 North Ivyhurst Airbnb on Saturday afternoon after the same complainant walked out to meet them again. The victim and suspect are both from Rochester. After a records check the officer keyed the mic with the update: “after reviewing the previous call, this is going to be the same thing — they were throwing ice cubes, which caused an injury to her head. Transported ECMC for that, as well as the voluntary mental health. No evidence of any sort of crime that occurred”

Clarence · Bergtold Road

28-Year-Old Unconscious at Mercy Nursing & Rehab

Clarence EMS was paged at 7:12 AM to the third-floor nursing station at 10570 Bergtold Road — the Mercy Nursing & Rehabilitation facility — for a 28-year-old female found unresponsive. Twin City handled the transport to Buffalo General.

Clarence · ECDPW Highway Garage

Brush Fire Report at Erie County Highway Garage Turns Out to Be a Controlled Burn

Clarence Fire investigated a reported brush fire at the entrance to the Erie County Highway Garage just after 11:14 AM. Class 2 responded, kept an eye on it, and cleared the scene as a controlled burn a few minutes later.

Buffalo East Side · 632 Fillmore

Garage Burglary in Progress on Fillmore: Suspect Grabs Tools, Runs South on Foot

BPD C-E cars raced to 632 Fillmore Avenue at 11:34 AM for a garage burglary just occurred. The suspect was described on the air as a 20-year-old male, black, wearing black pants, fleeing on foot southbound on Fillmore with the stolen tools in hand.