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Park Country Club, Take Two RESOLVED
Same Address, Same Sheridan, This Time the Smoke Detector Heard Construction
The AM brief's pre-dawn pool-house steam scare at 4949 Sheridan Drive came back as a midday alarm with a different culprit — second-floor mezzanine smoke detector activations courtesy of work crews on the property.
13:45–13:54 · Amherst Fire Dispatch · 4949 Sheridan Drive, Williamsville
Twelve hours after Wayne DeVille toned an Amherst Fire box on a "Corbett East structure fire" at the Park Country Club's pool house (AM brief, "Pool House Smoke at the Park Country Club Pulls a Full Box Out of Quarters at Sunrise"), the same Williamsville address keyed up the air again. At 13:45 Amherst Fire dispatched on an "alarm activation, 4949 Sheridan Drive at the Park Country Club"[1] — "between Sheridan Circle and the Village Green, I have a company reporting a second floor mezzanine smoke detector activation."[2] A follow-up two minutes later added "an additional smoke detector activation in the dining room."[3]
The shape of the call resolved fast, and this time without the water-heater plot twist. By 13:50 the first-arriving engine reported, "It's clear, I'm not seeing any construction. Holding with the first two engines,"[4] and by 13:54 dispatch had the answer keyed up clean: "They're having construction work done on the second floor. They're going to leave the kitchen. There's no hazard."[5] Williamsville 2 secured, first engine held the scene. Two false alarms at the country club in twelve hours, two different causes, no fire either time.
Wegmans on Alberta, Day Two ONGOING
"Concerning Comments" Subject Returned to the Store Wednesday Morning, Then Walked Off Toward Vail
The Wegmans security flag from yesterday afternoon's AM brief was back on the air at 08:30, this time with a description, a recap, and a quiet decision to let him walk.
08:30–08:33 · Amherst PD · Wegmans, 675 Alberta Drive
The AM brief's Overheard #5 — "The Wegmans Customer Whose 'Concerning Comments' Earned a Chief," dispatched the previous evening at 675 Alberta — returned to the air this morning at 08:30 in concrete form: "Officious person complaint, Wegmans 675 Alberta. Party's in the back of the store. Made some comments yesterday about an 8 or a 15."[6] Patrol described the subject as "white male, long gray hair, black jacket, green bag."[7]
The clarifying detail from the manager's office a minute later was the part the AM edition couldn't print yet, because the language was off-air at the time: "The line says they have no issue with the party being there. They were told yesterday to call if they see him again just because he made a statement about the gun."[8] Patrol logged that he "left the store on foot towards Vail"[9] with no further action. Trespass-warning playbook on hold; the store is not pressing it.
Around the NeighborhoodWilliamsville · Amherst · Clarence · near neighbors
Knife Threat → Welfare Check
18-Year-Old Home Alone at 33 Copper Heights; Boyfriend's 911 Call Said a Knife Was Held to Her Throat
Mother got the secondhand report from a boyfriend; Amherst patrol forced verbal contact through the open front door minutes later, and confirmed firearms in the house were in a safe she could not access.
14:07–14:15 · Amherst PD · 33 Copper Heights, Snyder area
The most consequential call of the eight-hour window came in at 14:07, with patrol dispatched on a welfare check at 33 Copper Heights: "It's an 18-year-old female home alone. Mother is not on location but received a call from her boyfriend reporting that she had a knife to her throat. She does not know where the knife is at this time."[10] The radio identified the subject inside as "Olivia Corte, female born in 2008. There's a code in the screen for the door."[11]
By 14:14 the second car on scene had keyed up the line everyone listening wanted to hear: "We have verbal contact with her right now through the open front door."[12] Patrol then confirmed on the air that "arms in a safe... she does not have access to,"[13] closing the immediate weapon question. No transport, no on-air arrest, no second-party present in the house. The boyfriend's role and the boyfriend's call are now the unanswered part of the file.
MVA
Two-Car Wreck on North French Sends One to Kenmore by Twin City
An East Amherst MVA at 4750 North French Road between Autumn Creek Lane and Autumn Creek Court drew Amherst Fire and Twin City Ambulance just past 9:30 a.m.
09:31–09:50 · Amherst Fire Dispatch · 4750 North French Road, East Amherst
Amherst Fire toned at 09:31 on a "motor vehicle accident, 4750 North French Road"[14] and clarified two minutes later: "4750 North French Road, between Autumn Creek Lane and Autumn Creek Court."[15] A second patrol unit on the way described the call as a search for "an appliance van and a Chevy Cobalt,"[16] and 17 minutes after dispatch the inside report was clean: "Two cars, two patients. Preventative waiting two,"[17] followed by "Twin City 242 transporting to Kenmore."[18] Clarence Center back in service at 09:51.
Wegmans Vestibule
Elderly Woman In and Out of Consciousness Just Inside the Door at 5275 Sheridan
Williamsville EMS toned at 11:50 to Wegmans on Sheridan; the patient was found in the front vestibule.
11:50 · Amherst Fire Dispatch · Wegmans, 5275 Sheridan Drive at Evans Street
"Main-Transit, EMS call 5275 Sheridan Drive. It's going to be at Wegmans"[19] dispatch keyed up at 11:50, "between Evans Street and SJ Road. Inside the vestibule for an elderly female in and out of consciousness."[20] Hour two of the PM window, second Wegmans page of the day; this one was a medical call, not a security one.
Mental Hygiene
Crisis Services Met an Amherst Patrol Unit in a Gray Subaru for Andrew Maddow
Standard patrol-plus-clinician hand-off in the late lunchtime hour. The car color and the make make it clear which team's vehicle.
12:17 · Amherst PD
"32 KMAR, meet a Crisis Services team in a gray Subaru. Welfare to check on Andrew Maddow,"[21] a patrol supervisor told a unit at 12:17. Echo of the AM brief's Canterbury Square pattern, different subject, same playbook — the village's evening blotter stays civil because Amherst keeps clinicians and patrol in the same parking lot.
Domestic / Intoxicated
"Mom Has Been Drinking for Several Days and Vomiting" — 249 Travers, Apartment A
A 41-year-old male, "heavily intoxicated," drew Amherst PD and EMS to a Travers apartment at 11:38 with a daughter on the line.
11:38 · Amherst PD · 249 Travers, Apt. A
Patrol read out the call sheet: "5, 7, and 5, 249 Travers, A-Apple, 41-year-old male, heavily intoxicated. The mom has been drinking for several days and vomiting. She wants some remove."[22] No on-air transport disposition before the channel cleared. A separate "concern for his wellness, lots of calls lately"[23] note at 12:38 for "Room 303" at an unstated Amherst address suggests the morning was a quiet repeat-caller stretch.
Echo Response
88-Year-Old Unconscious at Bristol Village; Echo Page from Clarence Center
Two stacked elder-care echoes at 09:28 and 12:16, both in Clarence's senior housing footprint, both reading at the top of EMS's acuity scale.
09:28 & 12:16 · Amherst Fire Dispatch · 8455 Clarence Center Road · 5032 Dunnington Road
Two notable elder calls in Clarence inside the same window: an 09:28 echo at Bristol Village, "8455 Clarence Center Road... 3 Meadow Lakes Drive, Ranchview Drive, Unit 106 for an 88-year-old female that is unconscious, reported to be breathing"[24]; and a 12:16 page to "5032 Dunnington Road, from the north of Hollington Road, there's a 93-year-old female with stroke symptoms, not alert."[25] No on-air outcome for either; both got the full Clarence Center FD response.
Overheard: The WiresThe strange · the funny · the accidentally poetic
"I'm Not Giving You Mouth-to-Mouth. I'll Do the Pushy-Pushy."
10:49 · Sports Venues / HMS Security
Stadium-side construction radio is its own subgenre, and the HMS Security crew working the venue refit owned the morning. After a half-hour of dust-cloud politics on the 200 club level — build cleaners "using a machine without a filter"[26] — one supervisor radioed up looking for laborers, was told "I've got to hold a Nick,"[27] and replied with the day's best CPR negotiation: "Yeah, I'm just holding my breath. You might need to send a medic for me."[28] The volley back was instant and immortal: "I'm not giving you mouth-to-mouth. I'll do the pushy-pushy."[29] Mortar was reportedly hardening throughout.
BuffaloLimo Driver Reports "I'm Just Glad You Didn't Punch Me Out"
13:14 · Taxis / BuffaloLimo
One of the morning's small mysteries arrived on the BuffaloLimo dispatch repeater just after 1 p.m., uncredited and unexplained, between routine pickups. A driver asks: "What was that, Paul?"[30] A second voice answers, with the day's most economical de-escalation in the cab transport sector: "He said I'm just glad you didn't punch me out."[31] Whether the speaker was the customer or the driver is a question the channel left unresolved. Whether somebody nearly took a swing inside a Buffalo Limo on a Tuesday morning is another. The trip log went on, the next call came in, and the radio moved past it.
"Forty Lashes With a Wet Noodle" — The Lost-Bluetooth Shuttle Confession
08:33 · Site / TPS BNIA Shuttle
A BNIA shuttle driver keyed up at 08:33 with a workplace explanation any IT department would recognize: "I lost my Bluetooth and couldn't get it back on, so I was going to come back."[32] Dispatch issued the punishment a beat later, with the sentence that lit up the FRS-adjacent imagination of every radio listener in the southtowns: "40 lashes with a wet noodle."[33] Justice was served, the picks resumed, and three Georges and two Henrys made it out of the yard intact.
Suspicious Person at 103 Zellemere: Yellow Reflective Vest, Pulling a Wagon
10:48 · Amherst PD · 103 Zellemere, between Fenwick and Cranbourne
The Amherst suspicious-person genre got a new entry at 10:48: "A suspicious person, 103 Zellemere, in between Fenwick and Cranbourne. Complaint is not on the cameras. There's a white male wearing a yellow reflective vest, pulling a wagon, walking around the home."[34] The reflective vest is the part of this complaint that does the most work. Whether the wagon man was a contractor, a Census-adjacent neighbor, or genuinely up to something will have to wait for the screen-update; nothing further cleared the air.
The Small Grey Dog Was From 100 Pheasant Run All Along
09:20–09:25 · Amherst PD · 87 Fairhaven / 100 Pheasant Run
The Amherst patrol shift had a brief detour into animal control: "This is a dog in the area of 87 Fairhaven. No collars or tags. It's a small grey dog,"[35] followed five minutes later by the unit who recognized the suspect: "I believe that dog lives at 100 Pheasant Run."[36] No mention of how the unit knew, which is the right way to leave it. The small grey dog was, presumably, walked home. Followed by patrol's terminal report at 09:25: "I'm on my way, but it sounds like the duck's running, so..."[37] — an unrelated bird now lost to the channel.
Cheektowaga Found "the Mail on Ivanhoe" While Looking for a Red-Jacketed Child
08:07–08:27 · Municipalities / Cheektowaga PD 1
A small Cheektowaga PD search for a missing student — "the child's wearing a red jacket, blue backpack, jeans, and blue shoes"[38] — was interrupted in real time by an unrelated post-office cameo: "By the way, I think I got that mail on Ivanhoe."[39] Dispatch's read-back: "10-4, Carpaccio, this is a mail from Myron on Ivanhoe."[40] The child was confirmed at the school inside twenty minutes; the mail's fate is unknown.
Evans PD Logged a "Two-Year-Old Male With a Bite of These Poisonous"
08:59 · Evans PD 1 · 1077 Mile Strip
Among the morning's more arresting dispatch fragments, Evans PD broadcast at 08:59: "Go 34, 1077 Mile Strip, 1077 Mile Strip for a two-year-old male with a bite of these poisonous..."[41] The transmission was clipped before the noun arrived. The reassurance came in the next breath — "Showing no signs of illness"[42] — which is the most you can ever ask of a Tuesday-morning Evans dispatch closer for that particular call sheet.
Coast Guard to Mariners: Watch for Fireworks Over Waterloo, May 23
10:56–11:01 · Maritime Ops · Marine 22A-1022
The Coast Guard's safety broadcast reel ran a long six minutes on the maritime channel and gave WNY's lake-watchers a calendar item to look forward to: a "fireworks display in Waterloo, New York, with a fallout zone in all waters... 23-2026 from 9pm to 10pm local time."[43] Bundled in with a Cleveland sailboat-race notice, an Edgewater Yacht Club racecourse advisory running through October 4, and the recurring instruction to "exercise caution... be alert for stationary brake fluid and rapid force changes." Lake Erie expects you.
Regional BlotterWNY-wide · brief mentions
09:14 · Town of Hamburg / EAFD Dispatch
1440 Bowen Road: 70-Year-Old Female, Severe Shortness of Breath, COPD Exacerbation
EAFD Dispatch toned a progress page to 1440 Bowen Road, between Jameson and Rice, for "a 70-year-old female, [severe] shortness of breath, possible COPD exacerbation."[44] Dispatched cold, no on-air transport disposition.
10:14 · Amherst PD
20-Year-Old Unresponsive on the Top Floor at 4979 Harlem Road
"We're out for the EMS, 4979 Harlem Road in between Burroughs and Sheridan for a 20-year-old unresponsive. Top floor."[45] Patrol cleared without further detail on the air.
10:17 · Amherst Fire Dispatch
UBMD Neurology, 5851 Main Street: Woman in Her 20s Goes Unconscious in the Office
"Williamsville EMS call 5851 Main Street at UBMD Neurology, between Pohl Place and Reinwald Street, for a female in her 20s that was complaining of abdominal pain, is now unconscious."[46] Echo response from Williamsville; no on-air outcome.
14:43 · Amherst Fire Dispatch
3196 Sweet Home Road: 45-Year-Old Male Unconscious, Reported Breathing
Ellicott Creek EMS toned to 3196 Sweet Home Road between Glenhaven and Sweethaven Court for "the 45-year-old male that's unconscious, reported to be breathing."[47] Last call of the window.
09:16–09:49 · Buffalo Fire Ch.1 / Ch.2
Greenwood Avenue Working Fire: Lithium-Ion Battery in a Player
BFD toned a full assignment "Rescue 1, F-20, F-9, B-4-1, F-40, B-5-6, that's the balance of a full assignment"[48] at 09:16; on Ch.2 Fireground the inside companies reported it contained: "Fire was contained in that area of origin. One-inch retreat, two-inch retreat. Quarters laid in, one put into operation. Zero to the structure."[49] Cause read out a beat later: "Lithium-ion battery... player."[50] One more BFD entry in this week's growing lithium-ion ledger.
11:35 · S-E FD Control
83-Year-Old on Woodstock Drive in Pain From Old Fractured Sternum and Ribs
"EMS request, Woodstock Drive, for the 83-year-old female with fractured sternum and ribs from a previous auto accident in pain."[51] Town of Southern Erie response; routine page.
07:46–07:54 · Orleans County FD-EMS
Rollover MVA in Front of Mount Albion Cemetery; Third Ambulance Toned
FD-EMS Paging cycled twice to "Mercy, you're told for your third ambulance, second to the scene of the rollover at 14900 [Route] 31 in front of Mount Albion Cemetery."[52] A fourth ambulance from Carlton was paged to 942 Shoreham Street seven minutes later; relationship to the rollover unclear on the air.
09:02 · Niagara County Fire Control
68-Year-Old at 1645 Lockport Street, Lot 6: "Hot to Touch, Unable to Maintain Pulse Ox" — Wearing a Life Vest
NC Fire Control toned Miller Hose, ALCA EMS, and NC EMS 23 cold to a 68-year-old female described as "hot to touch with no temperature... unable to maintain pulse ox"[53] at 1645 Lockport Street, Lot 6, between Park Lane and West Lake Road. The transmission also noted she "is wearing a life vest"[54] — an unusual detail for an interior dispatch, suggesting a near-shore scene.
12:01 · Niagara County Fire Control
Briarwood Manor in Lockport: 93-Year-Old Dementia Patient, GI Bleed
"Niagara County Fire Control 2, City of Lockport, EMS call at Briarwood Manor, 1001 Lincoln Avenue, Room 10... for the 93-year-old female dementia patient with a GI [bleed]."[55] Routine page, no on-air outcome.
Other Calls of Note
- 13:27 · Amherst Fire — Commercial CO detector activation, 4850 Sheridan Drive at Aspire of Western New York between Castlebrook and Sheridan Circle; alarm company reported "a CO alarm with no voice contact."[56] Holding with the first engine after on-scene investigation.
- 10:48 · Amherst PD — Suspicious person at 103 Zellemere — see Overheard #4.
- 11:07 · Amherst Fire / Williamsville — EMS call at 46 Coronation Drive in Rosemont; dispatch noted a warning on the address before the engine left.[57]
- 09:34 · Amherst PD — Auto alarm at 2650 North Forest "metal apartments, open window, restoration companies there, supposed to be vacant."[58] Patrol holding outside.
- 09:23 · Clarence FD Dispatch — Green rescue investigating a gas leak inside an unspecified Clarence structure.[59] No on-air resolution.
- 13:18 · Amherst PD — Hit-and-run in the parking lot of Atwal Eye Care, 9540 Transit; lookout for "a gray Chevy Taurus and a red SUV."[60] (Note: Chevrolet does not make a Taurus — either Whisper missed the make or patrol did.)
- 07:53 · Amherst PD — Harassment complaint at 630 Frankhauser involving a fertility clinic.[61] Cleared without on-air detail.
- 13:22 · Amherst PD — Sweet Home Middle School: a female student transported from school to 396 Joseph McCarthy[62]; not an arrest, an "ending mileage 68240" transport entry.
- 09:31 · BFD Ch.1 — A page-out reduced to "It was just a sleeper."[63] Sometimes the radio is the whole story.