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Downtown Buffalo · Motorcyclist off the 190

Full BFD Assignment Sent to 75 Exchange After Motorcyclist Falls From the 190

Caller at the Amtrak station reports rider off the elevated deck; BFD stages a wash-down four hours later at the same spot.

At 5:00 PM, Buffalo Fire dispatched a full assignment — Engine 32, Ladder 2, Rescue 1, Foam 40 and Battalion 43 — to 75 Exchange Street at the Amtrak station on the report of a motorcyclist who had come off the 190 above the roadway. A follow-up transmission from BFD dispatch a minute later added that the caller at the station was also “reporting something going on on the 190 itself” and that the department did not yet know what.

BPD Districts B/D put an axles-injury tag on it moments later: “Survival cars, I know you’ve got a lot going on. I’ve got an axles injury, 75, motorcyclist fell from the 190”. State Police were separately notified for the Exchange scene. Buffalo Fire returned to the same block twice more before the night was out — a Region 1 assist-police call at 6:56 PM between Washington and the Michigan overpass, and a wash-down at 9:38 PM — by which point the incident was, on the radio at least, done.

Top StoriesThe best of the wires — county-wide

Amherst · Chestnut Ridge

Ellicott Creek Runs a Fire Alarm at the Villas on Chestnut Ridge

At 3:13 PM, Amherst Fire Dispatch sent Ellicott Creek to 3751 Nickel Way[*] — the Villas on Chestnut Ridge community building — on a smoke-detector activation in the lobby reception area. The call cleared without incident by mid-afternoon. Alarm activations at this complex are routine ambient traffic on the Amherst-Clarence trunk; this one is worth naming only because it was the sole village-adjacent fire run of the window.


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

UB North Campus

“Copy. Good Goose. Throw a Line.”

A goose in the far left lane at J. J. & White, and a Facilities-grade decision tree that terminates in ‘Throw a line.’

At 8:47 PM, a UB Campus PD unit asked dispatch to send Facilities out to J. J. & White because “there’s going to be a Seuss goose in the far left lane”. The response — delivered in that flat radio deadpan that makes campus dispatch a national resource — was: “Copy. Good Goose. Throw a line”.

UB North Campus · An Hour Later

The Same Beat, an Hour Later: Blue-Light Call for a Weird Goose

At 9:49 PM, a UB Campus PD unit reported — having presumably not had a chance to sit down since the earlier Seuss goose — that someone had used one of the blue emergency-call boxes in the Michael Farber lot to report a goose that “is acting weird”. Eight minutes later the check came back clean: “That goose check’s okay. Took it offline somewhere. Will be 10-8”

Buffalo · Ambulance Says Coyote

BFD Dispatch Passes On What Sounds Like the Best Sentence of Anyone’s Shift

At 7:19 PM, over Buffalo Fire dispatch: “Dispatch, he’s reporting he was attacked by a Coyote previously. Ambulance is on location. You can pick up police” — which is either a slice of extremely Buffalo backstory or a Whisper transcription with a life of its own; there was no follow-up on the trunk to confirm which, but the ambulance had it and dispatch cleared police off.

Amherst · Windermere

Neighbor Files Complaint: Two Dogs Kept in Garage Cages, ‘Never Let Out’

At 7:59 PM, an Amherst PD supervisor asked a road unit to take an animal complaint at 307 Windermere Boulevard[*] from a neighbor stating that two dogs lived in cages in the garage next door and, per the caller, “They’re never let out”. Sent along to the town’s Animal Control Officer for follow-up.

Hamburg · 4914 Big Tree Road

Neighbor Dispute, Not in Progress: Rocks Being Moved onto Neighbor’s Yard

At 7:34 PM, Hamburg PD sent Station 31 to 4914 Big Tree Road for a not-in-progress neighbor dispute; per the caller, the neighbor was moving rocks onto his lawn and he wanted to speak with an officer about it. The scanner does not, as of this brief, contain further transmissions on the fate of the rocks.


Regional BlotterThe rest of the record, by region

Buffalo Metro

Cheektowaga · Buffalo Airport Hotel

“Unwelcome Guests” Call at 4600 Genesee

At 3:49 PM, a Cheektowaga PD unit self-dispatched to the Buffalo Airport Hotel at 4600 Genesee Street — the property, not the separately-owned Inn at 4630 — for what the officer characterized on the air as “3 Radio, I’ll start heading to the Buffalo Airport Hotel for unwelcome guests”. Nothing further came over the trunk. Filed here as a named property mention; disposition unavailable from radio traffic alone.

Southtowns

Hamburg · Commercial Structure Fire

ONGOINGWORKING FIRE

Commercial Structure Fire at 3999 Jeffery Blvd, Uniforce

At 11:37 PM, Town of Hamburg Fire Dispatch put out a first commercial structure fire assignment for 3999 Jeffery Boulevard at the Uniforce building. Hamburg Fire Dispatch repeated the call minutes later with mutual aid up (“Scranton 6, Hamburg 6, Mutual 8”), and Orchard Park Fire Control was polling FASTEAM members past 11:46 PM asking for additional manpower for a working fire with extension. The incident was still burning through the top of the midnight hour, when a Hamburg-side transmission requested another engine from a mutual station “whether out on a structure fire or still on at their station.”

Niagara County

Niagara Falls · Structure Fire

RESOLVED

Structure Fire at 2711 Westdale Ave, Niagara Falls — All Occupants Out

At 8:58 PM, AMR South EMS confirmed on the air — while responding cold in the Falls — that the run at 2711 Westdale Avenue was a structure fire with all occupants out. A short, self-contained incident by radio; no further transmissions in the window.

GLOW Counties

Wyoming County · Warsaw Structure Fire

ONGOINGWORKING FIRE

Warsaw Structure Fire Holds Second-Alarm Assignments at Dawn

Just after 6:09 AM, Wyoming Co Sheriff put a deputy en route to a structure fire in Warsaw; at 6:17 AM, Wyoming Co Fire relayed the order from Warsaw 501 to hold all second-alarm assignments for the Warsaw structure fire, meaning the incident was contained enough that command didn’t need the additional wave already being paged out. Address was not spoken in the traffic captured in this window.

Chautauqua & Cattaraugus

Cattaraugus County · Working Structure Fire

ONGOINGWORKING FIRE

Multi-Department Response to Possibly-Occupied Structure Fire in New Albion

At 7:19 PM, Cattaraugus Fire Control paged Cattaraugus Fire, EMS, Little Valley, Otto, Salamanca and Deputy 3 to 7883 Route 353 in New Albion for a possibly-occupied residence on fire. A Sheriff’s deputy on scene reported a working structure fire with individuals possibly still inside; occupants were being pulled out as fire crews arrived. Manpower calls went out over the next twenty-five minutes to Gowanda, Dayton, South Dayton, East Otto, Leon and Conewango tankers, with a request from control to shut down the roadway. Leon 7 reported on-location at 8:19 PM; the incident was still generating traffic through the 8:30 PM hour.

Other Calls of Note

Buffalo Metro
[5:46 PM]Buffalo · Linwood Ave BPD and BFD staged on a caller’s report of two children and a woman being held hostage at 33 Linwood Avenue; by 6:51 PM a BPD supervisor noted SWAT was not being notified and the situation was being brought under control.
[2:26 AM]Cheektowaga · Genesee St U-Crest and Ravina paged for an unresponsive male, not appearing to breathe, in a vehicle in front of Crab Apples at 3298 Genesee Street.
[4:02 PM]Lancaster · Transit Rd Twin District Fire paged an alarm at Theo’s Place Apartments, 4781 Transit Road, Apt. 308, Zone 183; a routine activation, cleared without incident.
Southtowns
[4:59 PM]Thruway · Exit 6 NB Thruway dispatch relayed a possible suicide attempt off the bridge at Exit 6 northbound, side north and south, with several motorists pulled over on the right shoulder; Hamburg PD had a caller at 635 Goodtree with a name on the subject and NYSP was en route to make contact.

Editor’s Note

A busy overnight ran on scattered fire alarms and a spine of hard news down the Thruway: a motorcyclist off the 190 above the Amtrak station in Buffalo just after 5 p.m., a possibly-occupied structure fire in Cattaraugus County's New Albion an hour later, and a large commercial fire on Jeffery Boulevard in Hamburg just before midnight. Williamsville woke up quiet — the only village-adjacent traffic worth naming was Amherst Fire's smoke-detector run at the Villas on Chestnut Ridge. The wire's saving grace, as ever, is UB Campus PD, whose overnight blotter contains the phrase “Copy. Good Goose. Throw a line.”

Daily Gem

Copy. Good Goose. Throw a line.”

— UB Campus PD, 8:47 PM

By the Numbers

Segments
15,339
Active systems
31
Busiest hour
5:00 PM–6:00 PM (motorcyclist off the 190; Buffalo hostage report)
Regional Breaking
1
Updates
0
By Agency (top 5)
BucketSegs
Police5400
Fire / EMS6100
Thruway / State260
Airport / Aviation110
Rail / Freight25
By Area (top 5)
BucketSegs
City of Buffalo4200
Erie County (outer)3200
Amherst & Clarence639
Cheektowaga & Lancaster239
Niagara County88

Agency & area buckets are estimated from ProScan channel labels and channel-context inference; totals are approximate.

[*] = a name the scanner audio left uncertain and could not be confirmed against an official source; treat as unverified. Routine street-name fixes against official municipal lists are applied silently.
The WNY Listening Post · Thursday, August 6, 2026 · A.M. Edition · Vol. I, No. 89
Compiled from public radio scanner traffic via the WNY Listening Post automated pipeline. Transcriptions are AI-generated and may contain errors; verify names and details before action.