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North Tonawanda · Child pulled from pool

CPR Underway After Child Pulled From Pool at 111 Teller

Call landed on the wire minutes before the edition's 3 PM cutoff

At 2:25 PM Tonawanda PD Dispatch put the tone out for 111 Teller, in the North Tonawanda subdivision the dispatcher named on the air as "49 Cold Rocks in the Village." The first call was a routine BLS run for a 79-year-old female. Twenty-six seconds later the same dispatcher came back on and re-toned: “We have a child that was in a pool, fell out, they have him out, not breathing, CPR started”.

The re-tone repeated at 2:26 PM. The child had been removed from the water and bystanders were doing chest compressions when the transmission was cut. This edition's window closes at 3 PM; the outcome will be tracked in tomorrow morning's brief.

Regional BreakingWNY-wide, promoted to the top

Buffalo · Child abduction, BOLO

DEVELOPINGCHILD ABDUCTION

Two-Year-Old Taken in Rose-Gold Chevy After Mother Is Kicked From Car

BOLO put out on Adam District, echoed on Districts C–E

Just before 11 AM an Adam District radio put the following on the air: “Just wanted to make you aware we had a kidnapping of a two-year-old female child. Mother was in the car with a male. Mother got kicked out of the car and the male took off with the baby in the vehicle. The baby is not the male's baby. They're traveling in a rose gold Chevy bumper”. The dispatcher noted that the abductor is not the child's father and that the vehicle had slashed tires — which, combined with no plate information, is the entire descriptor the district had to work with.

Seconds later, BPD Dists C–E rebroadcast a shortened BOLO on Channel 3 asking every unit to watch for the same rose-gold Chevy. The window closes without a located notice on the air; this remains open at cutoff.

Top StoriesThe best of the wires — county-wide

Williamsville · Contessa Court

Overnight Attempt to Break Into Vehicle — and Into the Garage — at 54 Contessa Court

Amherst PD dispatched a car at 10:46 AM to 54 Contessa Court after the complainant reported that overnight, someone had tried to get into their vehicle and had also tried the garage door. The transmission stopped short of confirming forced entry, and the call was queued as a routine report rather than a hot response.

East Side · Jeep into a building

RESOLVED

White Jeep Crashes Into Building at East Amherst and Pannell; Both Occupants Detained

At 7:43 AM, BPD Dists C–E advised over the air, “We have that jeep. It was already crashed into the building at East Amherst and Pannell. We have both of the mails”. Both male occupants were off the vehicle by 7:44 AM, and a follow-up transmission confirmed one had been turned over to AMR with an injury. No civilians inside the struck building were reported hurt.

Buffalo Harbor · Water rescue

RESOLVED

Chest Pain on a Tugboat Stuck Against the Breakwall Draws a Water Rescue at the Buffalo Yacht Club

At 10:31 AM Buffalo Fire HazMat dispatched B-4-4 to 1 Porter Avenue across from the Buffalo Yacht Club for a report of “now heavy chest pain on the tugboat across from Buffalo Yacht Club in Bird Island”. Within a minute the dispatcher added: “the boat is stuck along the excavator along the break wall”, and Rescue Water and AMR were both dialed in.

By 10:35 AM the water rescue team was told they had a pickup point at 1 Porter Avenue. The patient was ashore and in AMR's hands shortly after.

Cheektowaga · Pine Ridge and Doak

RESOLVED

Motorcycle vs. Car at Pine Ridge and Doak; 17-Year-Old Female Taken With Rescue Escort

At 1:57 PM an AMR South dispatcher put out a hot-response request: “294, I need you hot with rescue. Pine Ridge Road and Doak Street. Pine Ridge and Doak Street. You're going for the motorcycle versus car”. A Cheektowaga Fire tone dropped seconds later. The patient was identified on the air as a 17-year-old female; she was reported alert and talking on scene, and was transported with rescue.

South Buffalo · South Park & McCamley

RESOLVED

Four-Car Pile-Up at South Park and McCamley With an E-Bike Rider Struck

At 12:18 PM a BPD Adam 240 unit asked for “240 and any other car that can assist. We're getting another accident with injury at South Park in McCamley”. Buffalo Fire toned Engine 25, Ladder 10 and EMS a minute later. The e-bike operator was struck by one of the vehicles and the striking vehicle stopped at the scene; there were no fatalities on the air by cutoff.

Colden · Fourth rekindle at 8697 Supervisor

ONGOING

One House on Supervisor Avenue Kept Reigniting All Morning

West Falls mutual-aid engine ran the same route four times

At 7:19 AM Hamburg Fire Dispatch toned Colden Fire for “another rekindle, 8697 Supervisory Avenue between Cooley and Heath”. Smoke was showing from the side of the building on arrival, and West Falls sent an engine mutual-aid. That was rekindle number one.

The same tone dropped again at 10:08 AM and 10:10 AM ("another rekindle, 8697 Supervisor") and one more time at 12:25 PM (a fourth report with the water department on scene). The pattern — a smoldering second-story fire above a garage flaring up every couple of hours — is the kind of unfinished overhaul that keeps crews chasing hot spots for a full day.

I-190 North · 6.8 mile marker

RESOLVED

Manhole Cover Blows Off the I-190 Northbound; Water Shoots Three Feet Into the Air

Between 8:10 AM and 8:25 AM, three agencies — Thruway Ch4, Buffalo Fire Dispatch, and Cheektowaga PD — spent a quarter of an hour coordinating a genuine geyser. The manhole cover at the 6.8 mile marker on I-190 North was reported blown off, with water pooling across the lanes and, per Thruway, shooting three feet into the air. Maintenance was en route; the Union / Genesee / Wasmuth area was also flagged for street flooding.


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

Buffalo · Mumford and Abbott

Ski Mask, Bra, Panties: A Full Ensemble for the Mumford Park Bench

At 8:26 AM a BPD Adam District radio delivered one of the drier requests-for-backup in recent memory: “Can you head over to Mumford and Abbott? Got a male in the park pleasuring himself. Black ski mask, a bra and panties”. No further update on scene, wardrobe, or apprehension crossed the wire by cutoff.

Cheektowaga · Maryvale Soccer Field

Custodian Finds Kids Bedded Down Under the Tarps at Maryvale Soccer Field

At 12:56 PM a Cheektowaga PD unit ran into the Maryvale groundskeeper mid-shift and paused to check the field. He'd been flagged down: “put me out at the Maryvale Soccer Field, I was just flagged down by the custodian, says that there were a couple kids sleeping underneath the tarps at the field”. The complainant's own address was taken down as part of the call.

Buffalo · 77 Shirley Ave (upper)

Two Patients, One Jar of Honey Imported From Nepal, and a Lot of Questions

AMR South, calling into the upper apartment at 77 Shirley Avenue, offered this magnificent one-line summary of the presenting complaint: “They both ingested some honey from Nepal and unknown what is causing the business”. Radio copied and moved on; the crew presumably did not.

Akron · Newstead Stadium

One Bee, One Mezzanine, One Full-Assignment Response

OPFD's dispatcher toned it out with the deadpan precision the situation deserved: “Newstead Stadium in the mezzanine level for somebody stung by a bee”. Enter 8F was assigned as the responding unit.

Irving · The drive-thru

Orange Charger, McDonald's Window, Total Confusion

Chautauqua County LE dispatch, straight-faced, at 12:01 PM: “A older couple in an orange Charger came through the drive-thru”. The follow-up transmission made it plain that this was about the couple, not the car: “They couldn't remember how to pay for what they had ordered from the microphone to the window”. Officers were headed over.


Regional BlotterThe rest of the record, by region

Northtowns

Tonawanda · 253 Briarhurst

Brother Finds Sister Screaming, Naked, Inside the House on Briarhurst

At 9:12 AM Tonawanda PD dispatched a welfare check to 253 Briarhurst after a caller reached his parents' house and found his sister in what the dispatcher described as “in the house screaming, naked, believes she's having some type of mental health crisis”. Multiple units, including a supervisor unit ("we'll be 30 to Briarhurst"), were on scene within minutes; the complaint number was logged as 636-063.

Buffalo Metro

Buffalo · 158 Zellmer

Aggressive Dog in the Yard; a Neighbor with a Baseball Bat Wanted a Card at the Door

At 11:43 AM a BPD Adam District unit requested a card at 158 Zellmer; the initial complaint was an aggressive dog with a neighbor across the yard armed with a baseball bat. Districts C–E asked dog control to assist a minute later. No one was reported bitten on the air.

Buffalo · Welfare check for infant "Enzo"

Grandmother Reports Mother Left Angry With Month-Old Enzo, No Supplies Since Thursday

At 9:11 AM a BPD Districts C–E dispatcher put out a welfare-check tone for a one-month-old identified on the air as “one-month-old Enzo”. The caller — identified on the air as the child's grandmother — said the mother had left the house angry with the baby, took no food, diaper, or clothing, and had not been heard from since Thursday.

Other Calls of Note

Northtowns
[10:09 AM]Williamsville · 5479 Main Street Type 2 four-station fire alarm activation at the Original Pancake House; no smoke or smell reported.
[12:46 PM]Amherst · 1306 Hopkins Road Tree arcing and burning near a utility pole at Billy Wilson Park; a black pickup was parked directly beneath the pole.
[2:07 PM]Amherst · 3400 Sheridan (McDonald's) Customer inside the McDonald's told police he had an old healed gunshot wound to the back that had begun hurting again and requested an ambulance.
Buffalo Metro
[8:02 AM]Buffalo · Bavarian Broadway Male indecent exposure reported: blue hoodie, baseball cap; no contact time available.
[1:13 PM]Buffalo · Bailey Ave & Kensington AMR South responded to a 65-year-old male, suicide attempt at Bailey Avenue and Kensington; crack cocaine noted on-scene.
[11:18 AM]Cheektowaga · Bike path behind 148 Medina Passer-by report of a white bag with red stains on the bike path at mile marker 23; officers to check.
[2:35 PM]Cheektowaga · 34 Marcus Drive Odor of burning from under the stove; nothing showing on investigation.
GLOW Counties
[1:33 PM]Genesee County · 6343 LE Road Reported overdose of a 16-year-old male between Lockport and East LB Road; law enforcement responded.
[2:35 PM]Wyoming County · Glenwood Cemetery Criminal mischief complaint at Glenwood Cemetery; deputy assigned.
Chautauqua & Cattaraugus
[10:30 AM]Cattaraugus · 31 Temple St., Portville Larceny of a bicycle, complainant on scene; named subject was Matthew Ellis.
[2:14 PM]Cattaraugus · 1412 W. Chestnut, Weston Mills 22-year-old male unresponsive with pills on scene; ALS call with law enforcement en route.

Editor’s Note

A morning of water and near-misses across the wires: a manhole on the I-190 shot a three-foot geyser at the height of rush hour, a rekindle at a Colden house drew mutual-aid engines back four separate times, and a two-year-old was reported taken from Buffalo's East Side in a rose-gold Chevy after her mother was pushed out of the car. The 3 PM cutoff arrived mid-crisis in North Tonawanda, where a child had just been pulled unresponsive from a pool at 111 Teller and CPR was underway. Between the alarms, a Cheektowaga custodian found kids napping under tarps at Maryvale Soccer Field, and an AMR crew delivered the line of the day about honey imported from Nepal.

Daily Gem

They both ingested some honey from Nepal and unknown what is causing the business”

— AMR South EMS, 10:54 AM

By the Numbers

Segments
8,509
Active systems
34
Busiest hour
10:00 AM–11:00 AM (Buffalo Fire, HazMat water rescue)
Regional Breaking
2
Updates
0
By Agency (top 5)
BucketSegs
Fire / EMS3820
Police2810
Rail / Thruway / Transit620
Airport / aviation480
Hotel / shuttle / taxi210
By Area (top 5)
BucketSegs
Buffalo2650
Other Erie County (Southtowns, Tonawandas, etc.)1520
Cheektowaga / Lancaster / Depew1240
Outer counties (Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, GLOW)1180
Williamsville & Amherst640

Agency & area buckets are estimated from channel-context inferences across the window; individual segments were not re-tagged one by one.

The WNY Listening Post · Saturday, August 8, 2026 · P.M. Edition · Vol. I, No. 91
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