Buffalo · Bird Island Pier

Jumper on the Rocks at the South Tip of Bird Island Pier; Patient Transported in Three Minutes

Buffalo Fire staged Engine 37, Ladder 4 and B44 for a suicide threat on the pier; by 7:57 AM the box was cleared with the patient off the rocks and headed for a hospital.

At 7:55 AM Buffalo Fire Dispatch put the box out for “Bird Island Pier, report of a jumper on the rocks, threatening suicide, go for engine 37, Ladder 4 and B44”, staging at the southern-tip walkway entrance. B44 was already responding within the minute; the initial detail was that “we got the call from ADI, reported a male patient threatening to jump in the water”.

Two minutes and change later, before any of the fire units marked on scene, dispatch relayed the outcome that ends this kind of call the way everyone wants: “POPO Fire Engine, 33-0 service, patient transported”. Buffalo PD had reached the male first and stabilized him on the rocks; fire cleared without engaging.

Cheektowaga → Buffalo · Harlem & Seton / Benzinger / Persia

Flag-Down Assault at Harlem and Seton Unspools Into a Three-Address, Two-Jurisdiction Boyfriend Chase

Car 42 was flagged down mid-shift by a woman pointing out the man who’d just hit her; by the time CID came back with a name, the story had walked backward from Cheektowaga to Persia to Benzinger Street in Buffalo.

At 2:15 PM a Cheektowaga PD car keyed the mic on the district channel with the kind of transmission that changes a shift: “42, I just got a flag down, Harlem and Seton, apparently a female just got assaulted and she’s pointing out the suspect to me now”. Cars converged. Within a minute AMR was rolling in support “roll AMR if you got hit in the face a few times”, and a suspect description was on the air — a black male in a white tank top, taking off in a vehicle whose make dispatch garbled on the way through.

The geography emerged as the CID hit came back at 2:23 PM. “Alright, these events happened in Buffalo” “The first assault happened on Benzinger Street, and then the boyfriend followed her to Persia,” “assault again, and then followed her to here, and then that’s when he took off” A love-triangle chase, told entirely in reverse across two police departments in one CAD narrative.

Cheektowaga · Wegmans, 4960 Transit Road

Cheektowaga Fire Runs a 7-Year-Old, Unresponsive But Breathing, at the Front of the Transit Road Wegmans

Southline 8-1 and Delta 9-0 staged at the main entrance of the store just before 2:00 PM; AMR had the child in-hand by shortly after.

Just before 2:00 PM Cheektowaga Fire Dispatch toned Southline 8-1 to the front of the Wegmans at 4960 Transit Road: “we have a seven-year-old male, unresponsive, is breathing. 4960 Transit Road”. Delta 9-0 rolled in support; the store’s main-entrance vestibule became the scene. Southline reported on scene with AMR at 2:06 PM and the child was in EMS hands moments later; the box cleared without escalation.

Buffalo East Side · 243 Oakmont, Apt. 465

“Violent Domestic, Male Is Choking His Daughter Out”: BPD C-E Runs Two Cars to 243 Oakmont

The mother of the daughter called, the dispatcher’s voice went up a note, and Charlie 232 and 221 committed simultaneously.

At 9:27 AM the BPD C-E dispatcher put the call out with the phrasing shift supervisors carry home in their heads. “Radio over to 243 Oakmont, Apartment 465 for a violent domestic, male is choking his daughter out, female keeps standing, please hurry” Charlie 232 and 221 both committed on the transmission. The channel got busy immediately afterward and no arrest, injury update, or clear resolution came back on the wire before other C-E calls stacked over the top of it.

Snyder · 211 South Union Road

All Snyder Units to 211 South Union for an Electrical-Burning Odor

Amherst Fire put the box out at 10:19 AM and repeated it at 10:20; ten minutes on, every Snyder unit was on scene with the incident on channel 2.

Amherst Fire Dispatch worked the Snyder corridor at 10:19 AM for an “odor of an electrical burning, 211 South Union Road”—the address on South Union Road, between Union Place and the Village of Williamsville line. Dispatch repeated the page a minute later; by 10:30 AM the direction went out to “All Snyder Units on location and responding. 211 South Union Road. Your incident is on channel number 2”. No confirmed source or resolution came back on the trunk before other Amherst-Clarence traffic pushed the incident down the log.

East Aurora · 177 Olean Road

Homeowner Drives His Own Vehicle Through His Own Garage Door on Olean Road

The one-line elaboration is the whole story: East Aurora Fire cleared the paperwork in a minute, and everyone was fine except the door.

East Aurora Fire Dispatch got a caller’s report of a “motor vehicle accident, vehicle into a house, the homeowner drove his vehicle through his garage door into the garage, 177 on Olean Road” at 9:23 AM. The follow-up transmission a minute later closed the incident with a completeness rarely available in scanner traffic: “177 Olean Road, report of the homeowner driving his vehicle through the garage door into the garage. No injuries” There is no better example of a vehicle-into-a-house call resolving in one paragraph.

Cheektowaga · 86 Hillwood / Dartwood Park

The Wiener-Dog Babysitting Job Goes Missing at Dartwood Park

A Cheektowaga car spent the 11:00 hour at Dartwood chasing a small tan dachshund on loan from 86 Hillwood.

The Cheektowaga PD channel produced one of those calls at 11:11 AM: “I was just like down at Dartwood Park for a missing dog, it’s a little tan wiener dog that I guess they’re babysitting for someone at 86 Hillwood” The complication, of course, is that the dog belongs to somebody else. There was no confirmed reunion before the window closed.

Lancaster · Pleasant View & Stoney

The Black Garbage Bag on the Corner That, According to the Caller, “Comes Out as an Animal”

Lancaster PD sent a car to Pleasant View and Stoney for a bag that had been sitting for a couple of days and, per the complainant, did not look like a normal trash bag.

Lancaster PD at 9:14 AM: “35 Pleasant View at Stoney in the southwest corner. Complaint reports a black garbage bag that’s been there for a couple days. Comes out as an animal. Stated it doesn’t look like a normal trash bag” The dispatcher’s straight-line delivery is what makes it — a bag that a caller believes contains an animal, on a corner, for days. No update on the bag before the window closed.

Depew · Two-Dog Handoff

“The Dog I Have Is Going to Be a Large, Black, Maybe Sir, Rottweiler-Type Mix”: Depew PD Choreographs a Two-Dog Handoff to Cheektowaga

The top of the 7:00 AM hour on Depew PD was an unusually literal round of drop-your-dog-and-take-mine.

At 7:01 AM Depew PD Dispatch was already staging the choreography: “2-1 ahead of the dog’s patrol vehicle and 6-3 ahead of the dog in the back of his patrol vehicle” By 7:04 AM the dispatcher had the descriptions on the air: “the dog that I have is going to be a large, black, maybe sir, Rottweiler-type mix, and the one that we’ll pass is going to be a great one” A polite exchange in the parking lot; both dogs presumably home by breakfast.

Amherst-Clarence · Getzville Reveille

Getzville FD’s One-Word Reveille on the Amherst-Clarence Trunk: “WAKE UP!”

Followed, thirty minutes later, by the same house’s rueful summary of the weekend.

At 9:07 AM Getzville FD keyed the mic on the Amherst-Clarence trunk with a single word: “WAKE UP!” A follow-up transmission at 9:35 AM explained itself: “It was a hard spot. We got hammered. Two calls on Sunday night” — the sort of aside that only lands if you know what a Sunday night on a small volunteer roster looks like.

Ellicott Creek · 379 Vine Lane

CO Detector Activation With Symptoms at 379 Vine Lane; Homeowner Advised to Replace Detectors

Amherst Fire dispatched Ellicott Creek at 10:09 AM to 379 Vine Lane, off Fairgreen Drive, for a CO detector activation in the basement stairwell. The female caller was symptomatic — “reporting an activation in the stairwell to the basement, she was feeling sick and evacuated herself” — and had already evacuated with her children before arrival. FD meters read zero on scene; the homeowner was advised to replace the detectors, and Restwood and Twin City picked up.

Grand Island · 95 Fix Road

Grand Island Fire Hot Response — Four-Year-Old Seizure, Now Unconscious — at 95 Fix Road

Grand Island Fire Dispatch put a hot EMS response together at 12:57 PM to 95 Fix Road[*], between Riverview Court and East River Road, for a 4-year-old male mid-seizure and now unconscious. Rescue 7 and Twin City 226 rolled. No outcome came back on the wire before the window closed.

Buffalo East Side · 243 Lemon Street

Buffalo Fire Takes a Full Box to 243 Lemon; It’s a Barbecue Grill

An “alarm of fire to investigate a report of a structure fire” at 243 Lemon Street put a full complement on the air — Engines 21, 3 and 2; Ladders 5, 4 and 14; Rescue 1; F20; F9; and Battalions 43, 41 and 56 — all onto channel 2 at 10:24 AM. On scene at 10:26 AM B43 marked nothing showing. The unwinding came a minute later: “Roger. That is a barbecue grill holding with engine 21. All companies responding to 243 Lemon, pick up per command with exception of engine 21” All companies picked up per command, Engine 21 holding; the incident closed as “good intent.”

Buffalo East Side · Sycamore & Wilson

Two Doses of Narcan on Sycamore-Wilson; Subject Taken to ECMC

BPD C-E called for a hot response at 10:06 AM to a male not breathing inside a white car at Sycamore and Wilson, the caller his mother; ADI was notified. Half an hour later the follow-up transmission closed the loop: “this subject was administered two shots of Narcan, and was taken ECMC, thanks to all the cars that assisted” A quiet, complete Buffalo overdose call.

Buffalo West Side · 158 Fargo Avenue

Four Reported Injured in an MVA in Front of 158 Fargo Avenue

Engine 2 and Ladder 4 rolled at 10:49 AM for a current MVA in front of 158 Fargo Avenue, between Jersey and Porter. Dispatch relayed the initial count: “911 call takers reported 4 passengers in 1 vehicle, all reported with injuries” BPD B-D committed a car to close down the block; injury severity did not surface on the trunk before the incident moved to another channel.

Buffalo · 181 Ellicott Street / Metro Transportation Center

18-Year-Old Female Overdose at the Metro Bus Terminal; MTA Police Already On-Scene

Engine 1 rolled at 11:06 AM to 181 Ellicott, the Metro Transportation Center between North Division and Eagle, for an 18-year-old female possible overdose. MTA Police were already on location; Engine 1 marked on scene at 11:08 AM.