Amherst · Willow Green Drive

CO Alarm With Symptoms Pulls a Full Amherst Fire Run to Willow Green Drive

Amherst Fire Dispatch paged a carbon monoxide activation with symptoms at 384 Willow Green Drive[*] at 4:54 p.m., telling responding units they should already have the run card and to have the alarm company standing by for a phone call. Dispatch confirmed the call type as “CO Detector Activation with Symptom” a minute later.

“With symptoms” is what upgrades a CO run from a routine detector call to a full fire-and-EMS response; it means at least one occupant reported dizziness, headache or nausea alongside the alarm. Ellicott Creek and Amherst engines rolled and the incident cleared from the primary trunk before the evening turnover.

Amherst · Princeton & Cambridge

Two Callers Report an Elderly Woman Wandering Unclothed Near Princeton and Cambridge

Amherst PD took a civilian welfare check at 5:55 a.m. in the area of Princeton and Cambridge on two separate calls. Dispatch's summary was direct: “elderly female wandering around, unclothed”. Units were sent to sweep the block; the trunk moved on before a disposition landed within the window.

Amherst · Main-Transit Overnight

A 3 A.M. Alarm Run Ends With Dispatch Confirming the Burglar Alarm Was Not the Fire Alarm

Amherst Fire ran a small overnight sequence starting at 3:07 a.m. with a commercial fire alarm activation at 6720 Main Street[*], listed as being in the area of William McFarland. Two minutes later a second alarm activation dropped at Gateway-Longview, also on the Main-Transit corridor.

By 3:25 the crew on scene had reversed course. Dispatch was told there was “an alarm issue because the burglar alarm was going off. There was no fire alarm present”, and a minute later formalized it: no fire showing, the noise was a burglar alarm. Amherst PD signed off both fire alarms clear at 3:26.

FRS 15 · Two Hams After Dinner

‘I Forgot My After-Dinner Diabetes Medication’: An Evening on FRS Channel 15

Just after 6 p.m. two hams settled onto FRS channel 15 for the kind of unhurried radio-nerd conversation the low-power service was built for — antenna theory, tower-height regret, an ICOM that needed reprogramming, a call sign or two. One asked the other “how's this radio sound”. Somewhere around minute six a mid-conversation aside surfaced that only ham radio produces: “I just realized that I forgot my after-dinner diabetes medication, so I'm going to take that. I'll be back in a minute”. The operator signed off with a call sign, promised to be back for the net, and left the channel to a passing FEMA-style Whisper hallucination.

BPD · Room 111

Buffalo Dispatch: ‘Someone’s Screaming and Crying Non-Stop for Over an Hour’ in Room 111

At 2:34 a.m., in the trough of the graveyard shift, a BPD radio dispatcher asked another unit to pick up a second call because the first one had gone long: “Can you take this other screaming call, I'll get another car, it's room 111, someone's screaming and crying non-stop for over an hour”. There was no immediate resolution over the air. Someone was going to have to knock on that door.

Amherst PD · Trinity United

‘Welfare Checks in the Area of the Trinity United Methodist Church’

The plural sat oddly on the ear when it came out of an Amherst PD dispatcher at 4:33 p.m.: “Welfare checks in the area of the Trinity United Methodist Church, 711 at Boulevard”. A single welfare check at a church parking lot is unremarkable. A second one, apparently on the same block at the same hour, invites a raised eyebrow. Units cleared without a related tone in the following minutes.

Genesee County · A Line Left Half-Spoken

‘I’m Not Completely Alert. 11104 St. Eric’s Street.’

Genesee County Fire caught a transmission at 1:33 a.m. that read on the scanner like a caller admitting the diagnosis in the same breath as the address: “I'm not completely alert. 11104 St. Eric's Street”. The trunk moved on; the intent, presumably, was to relay a patient status, but the phrasing arrived as a small three-in-the-morning confession.

Buffalo · Hatchet Assault

Hatchet Call Off Kenmore Avenue Escalates to a Tourniquet at 2 A.M.

Buffalo PD dispatch called for extra cars at 1:52 a.m. on a job identified as a male with a hatchet, described on the trunk as “someone's bleeding profusely from the head. Corey has a hatchet. It's a 25-year-old son's bleeding. The female's unsure what happened. They updated it to a stabbing”. Seconds later dispatch upgraded the report to a stabbing.

The scene got worse before it got better. Over the next four minutes a unit on scene reported “we're bleeding. We got fingers hanging off”, then confirmed multiple injured parties and a single tourniquet applied by police. AMR was already rolling; a second call — “can I add a welfare check, 1802 Kenmore Avenue, female, no male in the house, she has an order of protection” — landed on the same trunk twenty-five minutes later and read as directly related. The block cleared before dawn with no additional units requested.

Orchard Park · Working Fire

Overnight Working Fire in Orchard Park Held to a Laundry-Room Wall

OPFD Dispatch declared a working fire at 1:27 a.m., requesting four manpower and telling all companies to expect fire control. A water-supply request went out at 1:43 to lay in the hydrant, and command was terminated at 2:30 with the summary that the fire — started in a dryer — had been contained to that same wall by an incidental extension. No injuries were toned over the air within the window; the incident cleared the primary Orchard Park trunk on the same page.

Darien · Entrapment MVA at Darien Lake

Entrapment MVA at the Darien Lake Employee Entrance

Genesee County Fire Control paged a motor vehicle accident with entrapment at 10:15 p.m. on the employee-entrance road serving Darien Lake, with a caller reporting a screaming subject and a location described as roughly 1495 from the road. A County FD dispatcher confirmed the entrapment tone and the run went out on the primary Genesee trunk. Extrication resources were en route as the window closed for this brief.