Amherst · Wehrle Drive
Multi-vehicle wreck at Wehrle and Dent Drive draws Twin City and Miller Suburban, and Amherst Fire cuts one victim free
Amherst PD called it in from Wehrle Drive and Dent Drive shortly before 4:39 p.m. Tuesday, with Amherst Fire Dispatch escalating within two minutes to an extrication.
Twin City Transport and Miller Suburban both ran to the scene. A second patient, dispatchers said, was a minor — 17 — with his mother on-scene asking that he be transported. A third driver later flagged head pain, and fire called for another bus.
The intersection sits behind Dent Tower, the medical building at 3980 Sheridan; the fire wrap-up dragged past 4:50 p.m. before Akron Second cleared and Amherst Fire went back in service.
Clarence · Rock Oak
Amherst Fire went into the Rock Oak West manufactured-housing community late Tuesday evening after a resident on Kingsport Terrace, near Newmarket Avenue, called in the smell of natural gas in a utility room.
Crews staged for a possible leak and cleared soon after; no evacuation was ordered on the air. The complex, off Main Street in Clarence, is one of the properties tracked on the Listening Post's own watchlist.
Williamsville · Reist Street
Williamsville commercial fire alarm activation at 147 Reist Street pulled Getzville and Amherst crews to the Comprehensive Rehab facility just after 3:37 p.m. Tuesday. A dispatcher advised the incident commander to loop in National Grid, which AFC said had already been notified.
Amherst · Main Street → the 290
Amherst officers ran a short pursuit Tuesday evening that started along Main Street, jumped east on Glenn, and threaded north up Kensington from Lamarck before the sergeant called it off. One unit reported two vehicles almost collided as the target veered, and a spotter said the driver "got on the 290 eastbound" as the chase terminated.
Amherst PD said it would notify neighboring agencies. Hours later, at 9:28 p.m., a car near an East Amherst address was flagged — an occupant "was with an iPad" — as possibly tied back to the earlier pursuit on Main Street.
Newstead · Clarence Center Road
Newstead volunteers ran on a motor-vehicle accident at 12292 Clarence Center Road just before 8 p.m. Tuesday — a curve-versus-pole call, dispatchers said, with a black vehicle occupied more than once.
By 7:58 p.m. Amherst Fire confirmed a National Grid pole 351 down; the Erie County Sheriff notified NYSEG. Twin City ambulance and Newstead Warner 249 rolled to the scene.
Overheard · the BuffaloLimo desk
The BuffaloLimo dispatcher relayed a rider's complaint Tuesday afternoon deadpan enough to make a shift supervisor sigh: “He was intoxicated. He said that she was closing her eyes while she was driving him home”. Filed as an intoxicated-fare gripe. Filed by us as the entire day's morality tale.
Overheard · apartment 2 file
Amherst PD queued up a domestic run Tuesday evening and, in the clearest four-second summary of apartment-2 living we’ve heard all week, told the responding units “our complaint is going to be at 192, apartment number 2, and most of the history we have with apartment number 2 is going to be with Kiana Boone and Alex Holloway — we’ve got a lot of domestic history”. Officers cleared without an arrest on the air.
Overheard · pre-dawn Cheektowaga
The clearest thing said on the Cheektowaga PD channel between 4 and 5 a.m. Wednesday, per the scanner’s honest best transcription: “Thanks to the deer at the ranch — they got trapped”. Reader, we do not know which ranch. We suspect the deer do not either.
Overheard · Niagara Falls Boulevard
Alarm company reported a “front food-prep smokestack” activation at Blaze Pizza on 1595 Niagara Falls Boulevard. North Bailey rolled and, ten minutes later, cleared the whole thing on the air with what may be the sentence of the week: “it’s clear — a cleaner is using a gas power washer inside the building”. System reset, marked avoidable.
Overheard · FRS Channel 16
FRS Channel 16 spent Tuesday night ping-ponging between two moods: the earnest voice of federal informational programming and one very confused private conversation. Highlights: “This video is brought to you by the U.S. Department of State” at 8:29 p.m., “For more information visit www.fema.gov” at 9:31 p.m., followed by “he kind of disappeared” and “I haven’t heard a sound in San Francisco today” from what sounded like a completely different speaker.
FRS is unlicensed, low-power, and inherently hyper-local. Someone within about a mile of the antenna is very committed to the bit.
Buffalo · St. Ann’s
Buffalo Fire ran a working structure fire at St. Ann’s Tuesday evening after companies reported no access from the primary approach and command routed everyone in from the Watson side. Crews had one line working by 5:52 p.m.; incident command held the full assignment for the balance of the fire.
By 6:08 p.m. command called out roughly $10,000 damage to the structure, water on a 2½-inch line, 24 feet of ladder — and a preliminary call of arson. Final let-down came at 6:22 p.m.
The week in local government — tap a headline
A busy shift on the Amherst–Clarence trunk carried the AM haul — 1,619 segments across 26 systems, led by a multi-vehicle crash with extrication at Wehrle and Dent Drive and a late natural-gas call into Rock Oak West. Buffalo Fire pulled a working structure fire at St. Ann’s (called arson on the air), and the Overheard desk had a field day: a BuffaloLimo passenger volunteering that his driver was napping at the wheel, Blaze Pizza triggering itself with a pressure washer, and FRS 16 still doing its FEMA-broadcast bit. Weather stays quiet — partly sunny, low 70s — which is why the flooded basements stand out.
“He was intoxicated. He said that she was closing her eyes while she was driving him home.”
— BuffaloLimo dispatch, Tuesday 5:41 p.m.
| Bucket | Segs |
|---|---|
| Amherst–Clarence | 839 |
| Municipalities | 120 |
| Erie County | 85 |
| Simulcast | 81 |
| Niagara County | 78 |
| Bucket | Segs |
|---|---|
| Amherst / Williamsville | 839 |
| Erie County (wider) | 166 |
| Niagara County | 78 |
| Businesses / Taxis | 123 |
| BNIA / Airport | 70 |
By-area counts are grouped from raw system buckets — they add to more than the export total because a single call can touch multiple systems.