Around the Neighborhood
Amherst PD · 17:23 · Creekwood Park
Bystander Reports Male Chasing Female Around Creekwood Park; Subject Last Seen on E-Bike Convoy Toward Best Buy[1]
At 5:23 p.m., Amherst PD took a passerby’s call about a domestic at Creekwood Park, 370 Sunridge: a Black male in a white t-shirt and gray pants, dreadlocks in a ponytail, was “chasing” a Black female with long blonde braids around the playground.[1] No weapons seen.[2] The bystander said both parties left toward the apartment complexes west of the park on foot.[3] Minutes later, the same shift took a separate call at 4200 Ridgely — the Dick’s House of Sports plaza — where about six youths on e-bikes flung a shopping cart at a man, with a five-year-old’s hand reportedly injured in the cross-fire; the group fled toward Best Buy.[4] Officers swept Sunridge to Princeton and called it “all calm” by 5:31.[5]
Amherst Fire Dispatch · 17:58 · Royal Parkway Sports Complex
Two-Year-Old Falls on Splash Pad at 187 West Royal Parkway, Head Injury[6]
Amherst Fire Dispatch toned out at 5:58 p.m. for a two-year-old boy who fell on the splash pad at the Royal Parkway Sports Complex, 187 West Royal Parkway between Queen Place and Pierpoint Avenue.[6] Engine 395 and 244 rolled in from the Boulevard and the 290.[7] No transport status announced on the air.
Amherst Fire Dispatch · 20:26 · Sheridan & Shimerville
Three-Car MVA Shuts Down Westbound Sheridan at Shimerville Road[*]; Four Patients, Twin City Calls for a Second Rig[8]
An ALS motor vehicle accident at Sheridan and Shimerville Road[*] went out at 8:26 p.m.[8] Within six minutes dispatch reported “three cars, four persons” and shut down Sheridan westbound to let units roll.[9] Twin City requested a second rig at 8:37[10]; AFD Health 7 and Aerosol 9 marked responding.[11] Sheridan reopened roughly a half-hour later.
Amherst Fire Dispatch · 20:43 · I-90 / Main-Transit
Motorcycle Vs. Car on the 90 Westbound to the 290 — Snyder and Main-Transit Roll Mutual Aid[12]
Seventeen minutes after the Shimerville pileup, Amherst Fire Dispatch sent Snyder and Main-Transit (Williamsville FD) to a motorcycle-versus-car on the I-90 westbound ramp to the 290.[12] Dispatch repeated the assignment at 8:44.[13] Main-Transit marked back in service from the Thruway at 9:15.[14] No injury status announced on the air.
Amherst PD · 19:39 · Pepperwood Drive
Girlfriend Reportedly Trying to Break Impact Window at 2885 Pepperwood Drive, Apt. 520[15]
An Amherst PD officer relayed at 7:39 p.m. that “a girlfriend showed up and tried breaking the impact window” at 2885 Pepperwood Drive, Apartment 520; no visible weapons.[15] Number two was sent to cover, and a westbound foot-track on Chasewood toward Paradise turned up a white female, roughly 5’8”, black hair, white pants and black shirt.[16] A pepper-spray canister was later found in the alleyway behind the building.[17]
Amherst PD · 21:11 · Verbal-Turned-Physical
Female “Hitting Her Parents”, No Weapons, No Intox — Officers Stand By on a Talk-Down[18]
At 9:11 p.m., Amherst PD reported a violent domestic in progress: “She was hitting her parents. No weapons, no intox.”[18] Two officers held on scene long enough to cover a talk-down; no transport was announced on the air.
Amherst PD · 03:30 · FaceTime Threat
Caller Says Subject FaceTimed Her With a Belt Around His Neck Asking “Do You Want to See Me 10-23 Myself?”[19]
An Amherst PD dispatcher logged at 3:30 a.m. that a complainant had been FaceTimed by a man with a belt around his neck, asking whether she wanted to watch him “10-23” himself — police shorthand for self-harm in progress.[19] The complainant placed him in Apartment 3, “rear-left” on the in-CAD diagram.[20] Records showed a prior 9-45 mental-history hit on the subject.[20] No further outcome went on the air this window.
Amherst Fire Dispatch · 03:31 · PetSmart
Commercial CO Alarm at PetSmart, 1581 Niagara Falls Boulevard[*] — Cancelled on Approach[21]
Amherst Fire Dispatch sent units at 3:31 a.m. for a commercial carbon-monoxide detector activation at PetSmart, 1581 Niagara Falls Boulevard.[*][21] The on-scene PD voice cut in: “He’s going to have to cancel.”[22]
Amherst PD · 03:54 · Boulevard 7-Eleven
Customer Tries to Load a Cash App With a Counterfeit $20 at 2139 Boulevard 7-Eleven[23]
Amherst PD took a “suspicious occurrence for counterfeit money” at the Boulevard 7-Eleven, 2139 Niagara Falls Boulevard, at 3:54 a.m.[23] Employees reported that about a half-hour earlier, a customer had walked in and tried to load a Cash App balance using a fake $20 bill. A seat was requested with the assigned officer to take the report.
Amherst Fire Dispatch · 02:00 · Maple Road
88-Year-Old Female in Chest Pain at 7509 Maple Road, Between Kearney and Swift Mills[24]
Amherst Fire Dispatch dropped a 2 a.m. EMS call to 7509 Maple Road in the lower for an 88-year-old female with chest pain and difficulty breathing.[24] Twin City rolled from Station 1[25]; Houston 7 marked responding.[26]
Overheard: The Wires
FRS 22 · 21:27
Ham-Radio Hour on FRS 22: Oil Wells, Antenna Repeaters, and a Brother-in-Law Off Work[27]
For five straight minutes after 9:27 p.m., one voice held FRS 22 hostage with a low-power soliloquy about his life and his radio setup. Highlights: “his son-in-law was off and he wanted to go out into the oil wells, so we…”[27]; “the water treatment, the water system, the big water system over there…”[28]; and the rueful close, “in the garage and putting my repeater on this antenna, let’s see… but, I don’t know, maybe it’s not worth it.”[29] The radio offered no rebuttal.
WyoCo Fire 1 · 06:59
Wyoming County FD Calls in a “Building B-as-in-Boy” Full of Smoke[30]
Just before 7 a.m., a Wyoming County Fire dispatcher cleanly phonetic-spelled the building designation: “building a B as in boy for the apartment full of smoke.”[30] A perfect specimen of scanner shorthand — the letter is the only signal that matters, the alphabet word is decoration. Three minutes earlier the same dispatcher had toned out 304 Holland Road for an 86-year-old male with recent falls.[31] A morning of two crises stacked on one channel.
BuffaloLimo · 17:38
BuffaloLimo Dispatcher to the Entire Channel: “I Love Every Single One of You.”[32]
No context before. No context after. At 5:38 p.m. on Sunday, a BuffaloLimo voice keyed up and broadcast, to no one and everyone, “I love every single one of you.”[32] The driver on shift may or may not have heard. The dispatcher meant it.
BuffaloLimo · 17:55
“Officer O’Brien Didn’t Make Contact With Crazy.”[33]
A 5:55 p.m. radio status update that doubles as a piece of flash fiction. Whether “Crazy” is a nickname, a CB handle, or a noun in a sentence that fell apart on the way out of the microphone, BuffaloLimo did not say.[33] Two minutes earlier the same channel had broadcast that “Renee is banging in her apartment. She’s afraid to leave.”[34] Sunday on Buffalo’s livery channel reads like its own kind of police blotter.
EC Sheriff Patrol · 06:47
Sheriff’s Patrol Closes a Welfare Check With “Praise the Lord.” — The Reply: “Copy.”[35]
An Erie County Sheriff’s patrol on the Amherst-Clarence simulcast wrapped up a call at 6:47 a.m. with a benediction (“Praise the Lord”) and the deadpan, professional, single-syllable reply: “Copy.”[35] The next transmission negotiated whether to leave the report classified as “unknown trouble” or upgrade it to a welfare check.[36]
Amherst PD · 01:31
The Caller’s Theory: A Fox Has Been Protecting the Neighborhood; Dog Disagrees[37]
At 1:31 a.m., an Amherst PD voice relayed the complainant’s exact framing of the issue: “Protected a fox in the area, and he walks his dog at me and it barks and snarls at him.”[37] The grammar is a sieve. The image is unforgettable: a fox, on patrol, defending its block. A man, walking his dog. The dog, not on the fox’s payroll. Dispatch’s reply: “All righty.”[38]
BuffaloLimo · 18:30
“Welcome to Japan, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please, Please.”[39]
BuffaloLimo’s channel produced the day’s most internally rhymed transmission at 6:30 p.m.: a seven-please welcome to Japan apropos of nothing.[39] Earlier in the afternoon the same dispatcher had paused his shift to announce, after a plane passed overhead, that he’d “try to get you to tell us where else to run away.”[40] If the Sunday-evening shift dispatcher is the same person, he should consider writing.
Amherst PD · 23:54
“Just Verbal Arguments This Morning. No Domestic Here. I’ll Be Clear Unless Three or Four Need Me.”[41]
A complete short story in twenty-one words: nature of the call, conclusion of the call, and the officer’s availability conditional on his colleagues.[41] Read it twice.
Regional Blotter
BFD Ch. 1 · Buffalo · 17:30
Multi-Vehicle MVA at Park Residence Heussinger Pulls Additional BFD Equipment and Four Patients’ Worth of Ambulances[42]
Buffalo Fire Ch. 1 went out at 5:30 p.m. with additional equipment to “Park Residence Heussinger” for a multiple-vehicle, multiple-patient motor vehicle accident.[42] Two minutes later dispatch was authorizing two more buses for four total patients.[43] All patients were en route to the hospital by 5:48; BFD asked to be called back for a wash-down when EC CW EMS was clear.[44]
BFD Ch. 1 / Ch. 2 FG · Buffalo · 18:23
Working Residential Fire in the Vicinity of 664 Woodlawn — Multi-Engine Box, $50,000 Building Damage[45]
BFD Ch. 1 dispatched a multi-engine box at 6:23 p.m. to the vicinity of 664 Woodlawn, between Humboldt and Fillmore, after a child reportedly placed a single 911 call about a fire.[45] Engine 21, Engine 3, Ladder 6, Ladder 14 and Ladder 7 all rolled, with Battalion 41 and 43 assigning.[46] Fire ground at 6:30 reported “caught fire 12 inches, one line laid.”[47] Damage tallied on the fire ground: $50,000 to the building, with a separate building-contents figure undercut on the air.[48] By midnight, BFD had downgraded a separate Woodlawn callback to a malfunction with good intent.[49]
BFD Ch. 1 · Buffalo · 18:54
Kitchen Fire Confirmed at 535 Elmwood Apartment; Crew Goes Down to 1-and-1[50]
A “speed-on-the-stove” fire at 535 Elmwood — cooking fire, in plain English — was confirmed by the on-scene engine at 6:54 p.m. and the box was reduced to one-and-one.[50] No civilian injury announced.
Erie East FD / Lancaster FD · Marilla · 22:14
Possible Structure Fire at 3173 Three Rod Road, Marilla — Electrical-Origin Call Draws Mutual Aid From Alden and Lancaster, Contained by 23:46[51]
Erie East FD Dispatch sent crews at 10:14 p.m. to 3173 Three Rod Road on the Marilla/Alden town line for a “possible structure fire” with “formal thoughts, electrical fire in the residence.”[51] Lancaster FD D1 was pulled in three minutes later on a mutual-aid request.[52] Alden FD held the corner near the baseball field[53]; command was retained on the air at 10:30.[54] Origin was determined and confined to the building’s machine compression system; the fire ground was terminated at 11:46.[55]
Evans PD 1 · 19:28
Neighbor Reports “What He Believes to Be a Gunshot Area” Off a Residence; Caller Will Meet Officers on Arrival[56]
Evans PD 1 was sent at 7:28 p.m. to a residence reported by a neighbor as a possible-gunshot location; the caller would guide officers on arrival.[56] By 8:58, a victim had been “turned over” with a report on file, coded 10 — nothing further on the air.[57]
Other Calls of Note
[19:44] BFD Ch. 1 — Buffalo report of a male overdose, time 19:40.[58]
[21:57] BFD Ch. 1 — Engine 20 sent for EMS to East Sullivan in the Wyoming corridor for a man down on the sidewalk.[59]
[16:22] Orleans Co. FD-EMS — 421 Park Avenue, Albion: porch fire out but still smoldering on the north side.[60]
[16:58] Orleans Co. FD-EMS — Bleeding controlled by tourniquet on an Orleans Co. call; Mercy clear at 16:58.[61]
[16:06] EAFD Dispatch — 39-year-old female fell two feet off a porch trying to grab a package, possible head injury.[62]
[18:13] S-E FD Central — Seneca Fire dispatched on a fire-alarm activation, 11093 Route — cleared.[63]
[22:51] NC FD Dispatch — 100 Crestwood Court, Apt. 106: 97-year-old female, medical alarm with fall detector; ALS priority.[64]
[06:33] CFD Disp (Cheektowaga) — 39-year-old male in seizure at 109 Ridge Park lower; EMS request repeated.[65]
[06:49] Amherst Fire Dispatch — East Amherst EMS call, 5659 Creekwood Court East, short of breath.[66]
[01:49] Orleans Co. FD-EMS — 175 North Main Street, Apt. 17, the Pool Hall: male having a panic attack; Mercy ambulance requested.[67]
[05:35] WyoCo Fire 1 — 8 High Street, 85-year-old female fall, no injury, lift assist only.[68]
[23:11] Amherst Fire Dispatch — 4930 Meadowbrook Road between Sheridan Drive and Greiner Road[*]: 73-year-old male, COPD, difficulty breathing.[69]
[23:04] Amherst PD — Neighbor reports a burgundy Ford F-150 occupied two hours in the parking lot “in the lot of Iron Buffalo”; male and female “arguing the whole time.”[70]
[02:43] Amherst PD — 149 Belvoir: blue minivan parked on the road for 40 minutes with lights on, two occupants, possibly smoking; subsequent check cleared as “good intent.”[71]
[02:20] Amherst PD — Premise check, 27 Venice Circle: caller said an alarm went off “possibly a burglar alarm” that “just randomly went off.”[72]
[05:15] Amherst Fire Dispatch — ECHO-priority EMS at 4490 West Overlook Drive; Houston 922 responding.[73]
[06:19] Amherst PD — Caller reported a silver 2017 Cadillac XTS with dark tints driving northbound from Maple Road “erratically every morning”; plate run posted King Edward Henry 2227, registered out of Buffalo.[74]