Around the NeighborhoodWilliamsville · Clarence · Amherst proper
Developing · KFC
Ex-Boyfriend, an Ultimatum, and a White Hyundai
Female caller at the North Bailey KFC tells Amherst dispatch her ex is en route — and he’s done it before.
At 22:55 Saturday, Amherst PD was sent to a domestic in progress at the KFC at 3962 North Bailey Avenue. The caller said her ex-boyfriend was on the way to “beat her up,” that the last time she’d called he had in fact shown up, and that he was likely arriving in a white Hyundai SUV — previously seen as Lincoln-X-ray-Henry 3840, a rental.[1][2] Both parties were noted as “negative to the no-fees,” and last time, the dispatcher said, he caused property damage. Officers cleared after about fifteen minutes; no on-air arrest.
Domestic · 462 Emerson
Officer Ten-Sevens, Then a Late Domestic Drops
Just as a unit was about to go off duty at 21:29, an Amherst PD supervisor cut in — “Sorry I gotta do this to you before you’re 10-7, but I got a domestic. 462 Emerson.”[3] A short while later, units traded officer-safety notes for a service that had “domestics and 945s” on file.[4]
Boulevard Mall
Female in Custody at the Target on the Boulevard
Amherst PD dispatched a cover unit to Target, 1575 the Boulevard, at 19:07, for a female in custody. The on-air log shows three plate runs in quick succession.[5] Routine retail-theft pattern; no escalation.
Three-Car · Main Street
Three-Car “Pedial” Crash in Front of 3500 Main
At 18:55, a unit asked dispatch to “check on the three-car [pedial] accident in front of 3500 [Main]”[6] — near Eggert/3500 Main in Snyder. No injuries broadcast on the air; parties were exchanging information minutes later.
Williamsville EMS
Female Down in the 5010 Main Street Parking Lot
Amherst Fire dispatched Snyder 7 and AMR to 5010 Main Street at 15:11 — female fell in the parking lot, trouble breathing, with an interpreter named Jonathan brought into the call.[7][8] Crews on location investigating; no transport priority broadcast.
Brompton Heights
Snyder 7 Resets a Stubborn Smoke Head
Amherst Fire was sent to a commercial fire-alarm activation at Brompton Heights, 275 Brompton Road, at 15:10.[9] Within five minutes, dispatch confirmed the “activated head” and cleared the building for reset.[10] A second alarm activation followed at 100 Maple Road in “Gratzville” (Getzville) for a smoke detector — same outcome.[11]
Amberwood
E-Bike Speeders Buzz the Cul-de-Sac
An Amherst PD unit asked another car at 18:44 to “take a ride through 123 Amberwood for the kids that are on their e-bikes speeding around.”[12] Patrol acknowledged. The kids, presumably, dispersed.
Garden Parkway
Williamsville Roll-Out Before Dawn
Williamsville (FD) and Twin City Ambulance handled a 71-year-old EMS call at 260 Garden Parkway at 05:54. Patient went with TCA to an unknown disposition; Williamsville back in service by 06:14.[13][14]
Overheard: The WiresThe day’s strange, funny, and fully human radio
What the…?!
“Nobody Can See It Because Somebody Hit a Rocket Launcher”
An Embassy Suites shuttle dispatcher in Niagara Falls explains, with great calm, why the men’s room is presently invisible.
At 15:07 on the Niagara Region trunk — a channel that, read end-to-end, is unmistakably the casino-strip hotel-shuttle pool (Embassy, Hyatt, Wyndham, Doubletree, Ramada, with a supervisor named Lee and a driver named Brenda) — an unflustered Embassy Control answered a question about whether there was a men’s room with the immortal line: “The men’s one is there, but nobody can see it because somebody hit a rocket launcher.”[15] Whatever was actually struck, it almost certainly was not a rocket launcher. We are choosing to believe.
Cowboy in the Driveway
Highly Intoxicated, Urinated on Himself, Wanted to Go Driving
An Amherst PD unit, briefing his cover at 19:56, summarized the night’s most fully realized character: “He was highly intoxicated and urinated on himself, mentioned wanting to go driving. We do have history with that male that lives there — Gary [Filbert] — 10-18 issues. White male in his 60s, wearing a cowboy hat and a leather jacket. Silver Mercedes in the driveway.”[16] The shift commander asked if there was a complaint at all on the patient. Negative. “That’ll work.”
Buffalo Limo
Rhonda, the Gray Sweatsuit, and the Knife
Buffalo Limo’s dispatch repeater at 15:40 aired the kind of caller summary you do not forget: “Male says there was a female that was menacing him with a knife. First name is Rhonda. Black female, wearing an all-gray sweatsuit. Driving a gray Equinox. The male thinks that she might be in the area.”[17] Rhonda was not located in the radio window; her gray-on-gray-on-gray Equinox got away clean.
The Parking-Spot Confessional
“I Know Who It Is, But I’m Not a Snitch”
The afternoon’s most quoted voice was a TPS BNIA Shuttle driver — the off-airport remote-parking pool that lives on the Businesses trunk — running long, pre-Mother’s Day, philosophical conversations with a colleague named Joe and another named Chris while waiting on inbound flights. Highlights, in air order:
“Hey, not to ask a silly question, but is that Russia-Korea thing still going on?”[18] · “I stopped watching the news, Chris — it’s so depressing. And you don’t know what to believe.”[19] · “And 250 people are losing their jobs, and he’s out there playing Beatles songs.”[20] · “He’s definitely gonna be impunctual.”[21] · “Yeah, it was probably one of the overnight guys before they came in to clean the buses. I know who it is, but I’m not a snitch.”[22]
The clock at the bottom of the parking lot, the driver also volunteers, runs forty-five seconds behind the light at the 33: “If you pay attention, that right to our left by the 33, once that turns red… forty-five seconds after that.”[23] Twelve cups of coffee in. He likes the clock.
Mother’s Day Net
FRS Channel 16, Western New York, 2026
From 20:01 until past 22:00, FRS 16 (the unlicensed handheld band, transmits maybe a half-mile) carried what unmistakably reads as a small ham/CB-style net rolling check-ins. Call signs “WSAB 61,” “WSL 925,” “Kilo X-ray 607.” The president of the net is fielding gifts: “It’s a Mother’s Day present, so it’s going to be an early one.”[24] Someone offers a cocktail to a regular: “Want a cocktail, Matt?”[25] Another voice quietly explains his evening: “I’ve been close to the radio, man. I’ve been doing some crap over at the big house. But, yeah… I got no wife, I got no, uh…”[26] Twelve cups of coffee, again. They were hammering forward and driving forward.
Ungulates
“Horses Out.”
The first transmission of the listening window, 15:03, Amherst PD: “Horses out.”[27] No address, no follow-up, no further detail. Sound 4-4. Eleven hours of normal radio after that, and somewhere out there, two horses still out.
Sign-Offs
Niagara County Fire Control’s Most Niagara County Goodbye
A NC Fire Control dispatcher cleared an ambulance after the Niagara Falls MVA dispatch (see Regional Blotter, below), in the middle of triaging a CPR-in-progress: “Loading at 2-4, Control. — Love and hate you.”[28] A Cheektowaga Fire dispatcher signed a unit back in service four hours later with: “I know you’re baking.”[29] The voice of public safety, after midnight, is mostly tired and a little fond.
Regional BlotterWNY-wide, Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning
Niagara Falls · MVA
Three Injured at 19th & Tyne; CPR Reported in Progress
At 18:53 Niagara County Fire Control delayed Tally EMS into Niagara Falls for a motor-vehicle accident at 19th and Tyne Streets, “report of three injured, CPR in progress.”[30] A follow-up dispatch sent Niagara Falls FD on tactical channel 2.[31] No further on-air confirmation of fatalities in the listening window.
Buffalo · BOLO
Confirmed Shooting; BOLO for a Gray Jeep Cherokee
Just before 01:00 Sunday, Amherst PD relayed a Buffalo bulletin: “Be on the lookout for Buffalo, confirmed shooting, looking for Lincoln-Boy Union 4863 — 2013 gray Jeep Grand Cherokee.”[32] No further on-air contact in the window.
Cheektowaga · Mental Hygiene
Subject Flagged Schizophrenic and Possibly Violent
A Cheektowaga PD officer at 00:16 warned cover units that a subject (first name Ashley, given on the radio) “can become violent, schizophrenic, but he is negative” on the warrant check.[33] Routine call, atypical caution; no on-air force.
Buffalo · Gas Leak
Food Truck Reportedly Leaking on North Pearl
Buffalo Fire dispatched a Level 2 response at 17:25 to 35 North Street between North Pearl and Linwood — a reported gas leak coming from a food truck.[34] A separate natural-gas call hit BFD at 00:44 at 15 Grove Street, lower floor; Ladder 13 in.[35]
Niagara County · Tree Down
Tree and Power Lines Across the Roadway in Pendleton
NC Fire Control dispatched Miller Hose with utility-equipment request to Tweed Hill Crescent off Main Street at 18:50 for a tree and power lines down.[36] Earlier, a separate call sent crews to Alcott Road for tree-down with possible downed wires; Air Patrol on location.[37] No power-outage figure broadcast in the window.
Other Calls of Note
- [15:52] Amherst Fire — commercial fire-alarm activation, 100 Maple Road, “Gratzville” (Getzville). Smoke-detector activation only.[11]
- [18:38] Buffalo Fire — Level-2 commercial alarm at 83 Bryant between Linwood and Delaware. Avoidable alarm.[38]
- [18:48] Buffalo Fire — commercial alarm 671 Grant, Buff State Student Housing Building 54. Campus security reported “fine hair on room 30” (sic, transcript noisy); reset.[39]
- [19:53] Buffalo Fire — preliminary signal, commercial alarm Level 2, 959 Broadway between Fillmore and Gibson; nothing showing, picked up.[40]
- [19:32] Hamburg FD — tree across the roadway at 6941 Boston Cross Road between Smolenski and Boston State Road; held in quarters after.[41]
- [19:51] Hamburg FD — 87-year-old female, difficulty breathing, traumatic response, Amber Park.[42]
- [18:17] NC Fire Control — 94-year-old female, abdominal pain with possible UTI, experiencing delirium, Berkholz Center.[43]
- [20:06] NC Fire Control — Lewis 130, EMS 345 North 5th Street, Niagara Falls; 69-year-old female fell down stairs, partly unconscious, breathing.[44]
- [18:28] Lockport — 8-year-old male with eye-burning and blurred vision, 262 Garden Street.[45]
- [19:44] NC Fire Control — routine response to 3979 Forest Parkway.[46]
- [21:22] Olean PD/FD — reported hazmat gas spill inside residence at 6345 Powers Road; occupants attempted to clean it up, “unsure if it’s done correctly.”[47]
- [21:15] BPD Ch 3 (Buffalo schools/Charlie Towers) — gun call from a young caller hiding in the back yard, partial subject description on the air.[48]
- [20:11] Evans PD — Transit has the vehicle; standby unit nearby.[49]
- [18:39] Buffalo Schools — report of “over 300 student cards that are not working” at the simulcast tower.[50]