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Buffalo — East Side

12-year-old bicyclist among two struck at Casimir and Gorski

First dispatch called it two pedestrians; Adam 41 corrected it to bicyclists on scene

Buffalo Fire Dispatch leveled Engine 35 EMS to Gorski & Kussmer at 6:49 p.m. Tuesday for a report of two pedestrians struck by a vehicle. Within three minutes BPD Adam 41 was on scene at Casimir and Gorski, refining the call: two bicyclists were struck, one of them a 12-year-old.

Top StoriesThe best of the wires — county-wide

Williamsville

Cardiac arrest at Williamsville View Manor pulls a full response into Room 102

Amherst Fire dispatched Ellicott Creek EMS, Twin City Ambulance, and Amherst 92 to 165 South Union in the village at 8:53 p.m. Tuesday for a 62-year-old woman in cardiac arrest at the Williamsville View Manor senior-living building, Room 102.

A first-in unit reported on scene within a minute, and Amherst 251 confirmed a room-window entry at 8:55 p.m.; the fire-panel readings on the building's annunciator ran clean.

Snyder / Amherst

Overdose call on Fairgreen Drive: patient conscious and alert seven minutes after Narcan arrives

Amherst Fire Dispatch put out Ellicott Creek EMS to 137 Fairgreen Drive — off Vine Lane — at 8:15 p.m. for a 27-year-old male reported unconscious and possibly overdosing outside the house. Amherst PD acknowledged the address at 8:16 p.m., noting the caller was giving pre-arrival instructions.

By 8:22 p.m. Amherst Fire cleared the run: the patient was conscious and alert. A bystander named on scene, Raynald Basil, checked back through Amherst PD as “negative F2” but showing on probation for strangulation — an aside worked over the radio while officers finished the paperwork.


Overheard: The WiresCops, cabbies, custodians, dispatchers — off-script

Amherst PD

“A young voice screaming for the last 20 minutes”

The line came across Amherst PD at 3:42 p.m., dropped straight into the middle of a run about an unconscious male on an NFTA bus at Sunridge and East Robinson. Ellicott Creek 7 was already responding to that call — the screaming was folded into the same sweep of the wooded area near Lyfenshire and Robinson.

Amherst PD

Assist at Creekwood Park: the bench complainant, four wandering males, and the shared playground equipment

An Amherst PD unit was steered to a park assist at 370 Sunridge, Creekwood Park just before 9 p.m., told to look for the complainant sitting on the bench. She wanted the officer to know two things: “four males keep coming around and touching her belongings”, and “she also doesn’t like sharing the playground equipment with the other kids”.

Amherst PD

“It’s on a transformer behind 4324 Bailey” — and the National Guard has to come get it

An Amherst PD unit signed off just after 6 p.m. with a small utility mystery: something was hung up on the transformer behind 4324 Bailey Avenue that the fire department couldn’t reach, and the officer was calling the National Guard out to handle it. A follow-up transmission described “this light” as apparently stuck on a bracket somewhere up on the transformer.


Regional BlotterThe rest of the record, by region

Buffalo Metro

Downtown Buffalo

Waterflow alarm trips at 460 Main; Ladder 2 clears it as a sprinkler activation

A preliminary signal for a commercial fire alarm went out at 6:47 p.m. for 460 Main Street — between Lafayette Square and West Mohawk in the Ellicott Development Courtyard Mall — with Engines 1 and 2, Ladder 2, and Battalion 43 assigned. The waterflow alarm timed out at 6:47 PM hours; Ladder 2 investigated and turned the run on the sprinkler.

Buffalo waterfront

Zodiac 1 launches at the Small Boat Harbor for a water extrication in 75-degree lake

Buffalo Fire pushed its Small Boat Harbor companies to Channel 3 just after 7:20 p.m. for a B46 water rescue. HazMat crews debated whether to launch Zodiac 1 or meet at the ramp; on the radio, one chief warned that “you may need to put two people in the water, just to see how the extrication is going to have to take place”. Water temperature: 75 degrees.

Buffalo — East Side

Two males pulled a gun and took a phone, complainant tells BPD

Buffalo Police Districts C and E aired a complaint from a Jordan Anderson at 5:41 p.m.: two males pointed a gun at him and stole his phone.

Cheektowaga

Rental car reported stolen from the Hilton Garden Inn on Genesee

A Cheektowaga PD dispatcher took a rental-vehicle theft complaint at 3:24 p.m. from the Hilton Garden Inn on Genesee Street.

Cheektowaga

Domestic on Union Road: phone thrown, alert flagged for the male occupant

A hang-up call at 7:28 p.m. brought Cheektowaga PD back to 4513 Union Road. Dispatch got the female on the line: a male and female had been arguing, the male was screaming at her not to touch the phone, he threw the phone, and “some swear words were said.” Units worked to separate the household. Dispatch also relayed a standing alert on the male occupant — a note about schizophrenia and autism — so the responding officers had the medical context up front.

Southtowns

North Collins

Vehicle rollover on Gowanda State Road; extrication requested a mile before Kane

Springville Fire Control called out a North Collins vehicle rollover on Gowanda State Road northbound at Kane just after 3:21 p.m. Tuesday. Hamburg Fire Dispatch, a mile south on the same corridor, told a responding crew: “It’s a mile before Kane, you’re gonna need extrication”.

Editor’s Note

A humid Tuesday-into-Wednesday shift with the usual Amherst-Buffalo split: a late-evening cardiac arrest at Williamsville View Manor, an overdose knocked back to consciousness on Fairgreen Drive, a 12-year-old bicyclist struck at Casimir and Gorski on Buffalo's East Side, and a Small Boat Harbor water extrication that pulled Buffalo Fire's Zodiac 1 into 75-degree lake water. Downtown Buffalo drew a waterflow alarm at 460 Main Street in the Ellicott Development Courtyard Mall (nothing but the sprinkler tripped). Storms are on the seven-day picture — slight chance today and Thursday, likely by Friday.

Daily Gem

you may need to put two people in the water, just to see how the extrication is going to have to take place”

— Buffalo Fire HazMat, Small Boat Harbor, 7:22 PM

By the Numbers

Segments
11,449
Active systems
33
Busiest hour
3:00 PM
Regional Breaking
1
Updates
0
By Agency (top 5)
BucketSegs
OpenMHz Erie Conv7807
OpenMHz Outer1313
Amherst-Clarence895
OpenMHz Saianet564
Municipalities209
By Area (top 5)
BucketSegs
Buffalo / Erie Conv7807
Amherst / Clarence895
Niagara & Outer1313
Cheektowaga / Depew209
Countywide EMS175

Activity totals reflect the full 11,449-segment header count; agency and area breakdowns derived from the system-activity block at the top of the export.

The WNY Listening Post · Wednesday, August 5, 2026 · A.M. Edition · Vol. I, No. 88
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