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Williamsville · Midday Overdose

Female Down in the Atrium at the Williamsville Center; One Narcan Brings Her Back

Amherst Fire and PD converge on 5500 Main Street just before noon for a possible overdose; conscious and breathing by 12:00

At 11:55 Amherst Fire dispatched Williamsville EMS to 5500 Main Street[*] at the Williamsville Center, between Los Robles Street and South Cayuga Road, for a female unresponsive in the first-floor atrium. Dispatch relayed conflicting witness accounts — “one person said she might be overdosing and for other persons” — with a possible-overdose flag on the initial page.

By 12:00 an Amherst officer on scene put it plainly on the air: “She's conscious and breathing now. They did administer one of our Narcans” She was conscious and breathing after one dose. The location is a 9-1-1 address; Williamsville Fire held one unit outside the building through the clear.

Around the NeighborhoodThe Northtowns, call by call

Amherst · Stalker BOLO

ONGOING

The Neighbor Left a Note in Her Car: 'He'll Be Back'— Detective Free Puts Out a Blue Honda Civic

A weeks-long stalking complaint out of 397 Ruskin turns into a rolling BOLO on plate Lincoln-Nancy-Paul 1208; Amherst PD tracks it through Six Corners and out onto Harlem into Cheektowaga

At 09:55 an Amherst officer opened the day's most sustained thread: “Our caller has been followed by a neighbor for the last few weeks when she's driving” A note left in the caller's vehicle read “he'll be back” — and dispatch confirmed that the homeowner would sign an exit-of-vehicle complaint on the note.

By 10:15 Detective Free had a plate to circulate — a blue Honda Civic, plate Lincoln-Nancy-Paul 1208. At 10:41 the vehicle was picked up again at 397 Ruskin Road[*], headed westbound on Saratoga; a moment later a separate attempted-steal call broke close by, northbound on Eggert from LeBron Road, and Amherst cars set up canvassing at Six Corners.

The trail went briefly cold, then reappeared just after 11:00 on Harlem at Wayne — the vehicle crossing into Cheektowaga and turning right back northbound into Amherst. No arrest on the air by the 15:00 cutoff; the case reads as ongoing.

Amherst · Possible Cardiac Arrest

'73-Year-Old Female, Possible Cardiac Arrest' on Silverthorne Drive

Amherst Fire pages Sweet Home 9-5 and cover units to 43 Silverthorne, off Dutch Mill Lane at the dead end

At 13:09 an Amherst dispatcher paged a possible cardiac arrest at 43 Silverthorne Drive[*]“Dutch Mill Lane in the dead end for a 73 year old female possible cardiac arrest” — with the location described as off Dutch Mill Lane at the dead end.

EMS 9-1 was responding within a minute and confirmed the address; cover cars from Amherst PD converged. Follow-up traffic through 13:12 did not put a definitive resolution on the air within the window.

Williamsville · Dent Tower

RESOLVED

Snyder EMS to a 27-Year-Old Unconscious on the Sixth Floor at Dent Tower

3980 Sheridan Drive between Harlem Road and Campus Drive North; Snyder 9-1 goes in, then clears the tower by 08:52

At 08:26 Amherst Fire dispatched Snyder EMS to 3980 Sheridan Drive at Dent Tower, between Harlem Road and Campus Drive North, on the sixth floor for a 27-year-old female reported unconscious but breathing.

Snyder 9-1 took the call; command cleared the tower at 08:52 with the sign released. A quiet resolution to what read as a serious page — the young age is what pulled the dispatcher to relay it twice.


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

Niagara County · Kitchen Emergency

'23-Year-Old Female Has Her Fingers Stuck in an Immersion Blender'— an Ambulance to Jimmy J's

Niagara County Fire Control delivers the page dead-flat, ALS priority recommended, incidents on NTFD TAC-1

At 09:55, Niagara County Fire Control repeated an EMS page to Anti-Engine 4, destination Jimmy J's at the transcribed “Proving Grub, 126 126 Wheaton.” The dispatcher’s exact words for the medical: “23-year-old female has her fingers stuck in an immersion blender, unable to extricate it and control it”

ALS priority was recommended and the incident was routed onto NTFD TAC-1. There was no follow-up drama on the air — which is, in its way, the story. A blender emergency delivered like a routine falls-and-transport, and the crew rolled without comment.

Amherst · IT Outage

'Our Computers Are All Down' — Amherst PD Goes on Voice for the Better Part of Lunch

Even the 1212 desk number is off; dispatchers work the trunk the old-fashioned way

At 11:47 Amherst dispatch acknowledged something a lot of departments hate to say on air: “Our computers are all down” The 1212 non-emergency number wasn’t working, either, and both fire and PD kept the acknowledgment gently to themselves.

Nothing on-air suggested a wider outage — no cyber briefing, no county mutual aid. Just a workaday network problem in a police department, with the officers running plates and prisoner history over the radio and a captain writing a summary referral by hand.

Williamsville · Airport Alert

Main-Transit and Williamsville Get an Airport-Alert Standby — Report to the Firehouse

Amherst Fire pages both stations to standby posture; CD-138 rolls to BNIA around 13:30

At 13:26 an Amherst Fire dispatcher put the day's most attention-getting page out on the trunk without any ceremony: “At Williamsville, an airport alert, report to your firehouse” Both stations got the airport-alert instruction to report in-house on standby.

At 13:30 chief unit CD-138 acknowledged going to the airport. Nothing on the trunk in the following ninety minutes suggested an actual incident; the alert reads as the routine precautionary posture BNIA calls for on any inbound with a declared aircraft issue.

BNIA · Delta Ramp

The Captain Wants the Plane Cleaned Because 'He Saw Something' — Delta Ramp Argues With Housekeeping

A gate-23 JFK turnaround at BNIA gets stuck on whose responsibility the 'stuff all over the back' is

At 12:40 a Delta ramp coordinator opened a delightful negotiation on the BNIA trunk: “The captain is asking if you guys can clean the plane” The captain, she said, had seen something. From gate 23, the reply came back that the plane was already being handled; the coordinator escalated politely: “I was just asking if you guys could properly clean it. You said there's stuff all over in the back”

T-Hamburg FD · Late Blessing

'May the Lord of the Rings Be With You' — Hamburg Fire Dispatch Signs Off in Tolkien

A three-second transmission on Municipalities that no other station acknowledged, but every scanner in the county heard

At 14:41 a Hamburg fire dispatcher, apparently out of formal patience, keyed up on the shared Municipalities trunk with a benediction the frequency was not built for: “May the Lord of the Rings be with you, and may the Lord of the Rings be with you, and may the Lord of the Rings be with you”


Regional BlotterBeyond the Northtowns — WNY at large

Buffalo (St. Mary's Square) · Signal-2

RESOLVED

Preliminary Signal, Level 2 Response to St. Mary's Square: BFD Sends Engine 2, Ladder 2, B-4 to 125 Edwards

The building is between Delaware and South Elmwood; no fire found, activation only

At 09:27 BFD dispatched a preliminary signal, level 2 response to 125 Edwards Street at St. Mary's Square, between Delaware and South Elmwood Avenue. Engine 2, Ladder 2 and Battalion 4 rolled on the tone.

Command found the alarm activation and cleared the assignment without a working fire in the building.

Buffalo (204 Auburn / Herkimer) · Sparks on the Roof

RESOLVED

Passerby Reports Sparks Near the Roof at 204 Auburn; BFD Rolls Engine 19, Engine 37, Ladder 4, B-44

The building was closed up on arrival; the only visible damage was a broken window, no fire in the wall

At 11:14 BFD sent Engine 19, Engine 37, Ladder 4 and Battalion 44 to 204 Auburn in the Herkimer neighborhood after a passerby reported sparks near the roof.

Command reported the building locked and unoccupied — no smoke, no active fire, and a broken window as the only visible sign of anything. The assignment picked up and cleared inside fifteen minutes.

Orleans County · Garage Fire with Flames Showing

4690 Upper Holly Road, Murray/Clarendon: Working Garage Fire with Flames Showing on Arrival

Barry gets the FAST, Murray-Clarendon takes 5th, the location is between Mill Road and Brown Schoolhouse Road

At 13:39 Orleans County paged a working garage fire, flames showing, at 4690 Upper Holly Road, west side between Mill Road and Brown Schoolhouse Road. Barry drew FAST duty; Murray and Clarendon took the fifth alarm.

Williamsville · Comprehensive Rehab Alarm

RESOLVED

Fire-Alarm Activation at Comprehensive Rehab on Reist Street; Williamsville 9-1-1 Holds, No Evacuation

The same medical building that took an early-morning EMS run makes the trunk a second time before 09:15

At 09:04 Amherst Fire dispatched a commercial fire-alarm activation at 147 Reist Street[*] at Comprehensive Rehab. Williamsville 9-1-1 held for the investigation, and the building was “Location investigating, building not evacuated”

Other Calls of Note

[07:12]Getzville (Little Robin Rd) · EMS Getzville EMS to 176 Little Robin Road at Brewster Meadows Apartments, corner of Kingsland Parkway; Rayner-Scottsville 9 responding.
[08:46]Amherst (2635 N Forest Rd) · Fire alarm General water-flow alarm at 2635 North Forest Road at The Fraser, between John James Audubon Parkway and Bryant Woods; unfounded odor, advised to replace a smoke head, cleared by 08:57.
[09:11]Eggertsville (Hart Ln) · EMS Eggertsville EMS to 34 Hart Lane between Dellwood Road and Hedstrom Drive for an 87-year-old female who had a syncopal episode.
[09:47]Buffalo (40 Sills Ave) · EMS Engine 25 EMS to 40 Sills Avenue between Zittel and Buffum Street for a 75-year-old with high blood pressure.
[10:44]Buffalo (Harbor Point) · Lift assist Engine 1 EMS number 8 at Harbor Point off Lakefront Boulevard for a lift assist only.
[10:46]Niagara Falls (Gateway Park) · Fire alarm Gateway Park Apartments, 84 Sweeney Street, coming in on Zone 8 with no description available, incidents on TAC-1.
[11:33]N. Tonawanda (Herschel Carousel) · Fire alarm NC Engine 4 to the Herschell Carousel Factory Museum, 180 Thompson Street between Oliver and Lincoln, commercial fire alarm coming in at Zone 702 general.
[11:52]East Aurora (180 Busch Gardens) · Ground level fall Wehrle EMS to 180 Busch Gardens for a 70-year-old male, conscious and alert, found on the ground approximately 15 minutes.
[12:08]Amherst (133 Moorfields) · EMS Amherst EMS to 133 Moorfields Court between Stanwix Road and Pierce Drive.
[12:15]Wyoming County (3617 Buffalo Rd) · Gas leak Perry Fire responding, 3617 Buffalo Road between Mangs and Nesbitt for the odor of natural gas.
[12:44]Hamburg (4822 Jacks Trail) · Fuel detector Hamburg fuel-detector activation at 4822 Jacks Trail; a ladder truck request went on the tone but no further transmission escalated the call.
[13:02]Williamsville (201 Reist) · Fire alarm Williamsville investigative commercial fire-alarm activation at 201 Reist Street at Freedom Place, between Hopkins Road and the Village Line — general fire alarm; nothing found on scene.
[13:17]Amherst (Dollar Tree, 3500 Main) · Shoplift Shoplifter walking the lot at Dollar Tree, 3500 Main Street; subject a man with a neck tattoo in a black shirt with blue graphics, familiar to the responding officer, transport requested.
[13:24]Niagara Falls (Lutheran School) · CO detector Lutheran School, 453 Old Falls Boulevard, second CO detector to activate today — one already replaced this morning — building check requested, incidents on NTF Detect 1.
[14:15]Buffalo (General Hospital) · Elevator entrapment People stuck on Elevator 6 at General Hospital; Engine 2, Ladder 6, Rescue 1, F40 and B43 dispatched.
[14:31]North Amherst (1731 Tonawanda Creek) · EMS North Amherst EMS to 1731 Tonawanda Creek Road between Bear Ridge Road and Campbell Boulevard for a 67-year-old with difficulty breathing.
[14:40]Clarence (9425 Lapp Rd) · EMS Clarence Center EMS to 9425 Lapp Road between Heise Road and Goodrich Road for a 90-year-old unresponsive but breathing, possible diabetic.
[14:43]Newstead (River / Whitmer) · MVA guardrail NC Engine 6 for a motor-vehicle accident at River Road and Whitmer Road — vehicle struck a guardrail, unknown injuries.

Editor’s Note

A steady daylight shift on the Amherst-Clarence trunk gave the paper its front page: a lunchtime overdose that got one dose of Narcan at the Williamsville Center on Main Street, a possible cardiac arrest on Silverthorne Drive, and one Dent Tower call for a 27-year-old at 3980 Sheridan. Amherst PD spent the morning working a stalker-vs-neighbor case out of 397 Ruskin, with Detective Free's BOLO for a blue Honda Civic tracked from Saratoga out to Cheektowaga and back. And in Niagara County, a 23-year-old woman at Jimmy J's in Sanborn got her fingers stuck in an immersion blender — a page dispatch delivered exactly as if it were routine.

Daily Gem

23-year-old female has her fingers stuck in an immersion blender, unable to extricate it and control it”

— Niagara County Fire Control, 09:55 — EMS page to Jimmy J's, Sanborn

By the Numbers

Segments
932
Active systems
28
Busiest hour
13:00–14:00 (Amherst-Clarence: Reist alarm, Silverthorne cardiac, Dollar Tree shoplift)
Regional Breaking
0
Updates
0
By Agency (top 5)
BucketSegs
Fire / EMS340
Police285
Hotel / shuttle / taxi115
Airport / aviation95
Schools40
By Area (top 5)
BucketSegs
Williamsville & Amherst340
Buffalo170
Niagara County115
Cheektowaga / Lancaster / Depew90
Other Erie County75

Agency and area buckets are estimated from channel-context inferences. The BNIA-side hotel-shuttle segments ride the Niagara Region trunk (Embassy Control) so they are tallied under Niagara County even though the vans themselves cross onto the Erie-County airport campus.

[*] = 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 · Tuesday, July 21, 2026 · P.M. Edition · Vol. I, No. 73
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