Amherst · 6940 Transit Road

A two-year-old struck outside the Wendy’s bus stop at 6940 Transit — a single line on the trunk, no follow-up

In the middle of the Oak Ridge overhang, at 09:50, Amherst PD dispatched a call whose front end had been cut off by the trunk: “...striking a two-year-old, standing outside of Wendy's 6940 Transit, possibly waiting for a bus”. There is no matching first-aid call, no ambulance number, no clear or return-of-service on the air. Either the call was handled off-trunk, or it wasn’t what it sounded like — but the transcript as it stands is what it is.

Amherst · 3500 Main Street

The Dollar Tree at 3500 Main was cleaned out of beauty products by a black male, 6’3”, blue backpack — last seen pedaling toward Walgreens; Buffalo PD is meeting patrol at 3500 for a warrant pickup

At 11:36 Amherst PD radioed from the Boulevard Consumer Square parking lot: “We're listening from Dollar Tree, 3500 Main Street. Subject has already left on a bike towards Walgreens, described as a black male, 6'3", white shirt, black pants, blue backpack. They will prosecute. He took beauty products”. Store told them they will prosecute. The initial description at 11:37 was a black male in a white t-shirt and khaki pants; the fuller description followed a beat later.

By 13:37, follow-up: “I just spoke with the employee. They said he went over to the Starbucks that I guess is across the slide, but I'm going to check over there. It's a white male with a white t-shirt and black shorts” — a reference to the newly opened Starbucks behind the Anchor Bar location, with patrol going through Crosby’s next. Three hours later, at 14:51, patrol confirmed the plan on-air: “Yeah, I got Buffalo meeting us up at 3500 for a warrant pickup. They should be on their way now if we wait for them”. The plaza the Dollar Tree sits inside also houses Raha Coffee at 3500 Main.

Amherst · KeyBank ATM ambush

A stand-alone ATM ambush alarm at the KeyBank offices — the alarm that trips when someone is being coerced under duress

In the middle of the Oak Ridge callout, Amherst PD paused for a different kind of hit: “10-4-4-2-2-4 originally it's the KeyBank offices, it's a stand-alone ATM ambush alarm”. An ambush alarm is what a bank teller or ATM user triggers when robbery-adjacent duress is in progress — a covert 911. Nothing followed on the trunk to say whether the alarm resolved as bad-hardware or as a real one; the call disappears into the Oak Ridge traffic and doesn’t re-surface.

Amherst · Longmeadow Road, two calls

A 79-year-old on 583 Longmeadow refusing transport for a possible stroke — then, three hours later, an elderly male down at 586 Longmeadow

At 09:29, Amherst Fire dispatched Eggertsville EMS to 583 Longmeadow Road, between Westfield and Ivyhurst for a 79-year-old female with unknown medical issue — by 09:34 the third-party caller (Adult Protective Services) was reporting “possible stroke symptoms and some issues with his feeding tube, but he's unsure exactly what's going on”. On scene at 09:49: “First aid, 583 Longmeadow. Virus on location for a 79-year-old female, possible stroke. Failure on location, refusing to take her to the hospital. Adult protection is requesting an officer standby”. Patient refused; Amherst PD was requested to stand by.

At 12:30, Amherst Fire came back to the same block — 586 Longmeadow Road, between Westfield and Ivyhurst: “you have an elderly male there that's conscious but not alert, possibly even down for it”. Eggertsville 586 responded; Twin City transported.

Amherst · 257 Royal Parkway

Carbon monoxide with symptoms at 257 Royal Parkway — Fire Rescue 5 and an ambulance up from Niagara Falls Boulevard

Amherst Fire Dis toned it at 10:57 as a “Carbon Monoxide Incident with Symptoms”. Fire Rescue 5 responded and, at 11:00, dispatch confirmed 257 Royal Parkway with an ambulance en route from 244 at Niagara Falls Boulevard. On CO calls the readings run the show — Twin City had to sign off at 11:25 and the reset came with “0-50-0, known why the detectors went off, fault of the detector, no one has been advised, plan is under service”. Back in service by 11:26.

Amherst · 114 Travers Boulevard

The first call after Oak Ridge cleared: a missing person at 114 Travers Boulevard

As soon as Amherst PD stepped off Oak Ridge at 09:24, dispatch handed over the next one: “if you can head to 114 Travers Boulevard, meet the mom there, her son left last night and haven't returned”. The three-hour arc that followed — a canvass of 146 Fairhaven, 42 Grandview, more locations — came back negative on all of them. At 11:49, patrol closed it: “We'll be clear from Travers with a report. You can enter that. Current subject is missing”.

East Amherst · 8500 block

Mulch fire in the 8500 block of East Amherst — East Amherst 3 responds, no hydrants needed

Amherst Fire Dis: “East Amherst, report of a mulch fire, 8500...”. The 13:28 tone confirmed East Amherst Fire; East Amherst 3 was responding by 13:31. Dispatch reminded units at 13:34 that if hydrants were needed, “East Amherst Street, if you need hydrants, you have two private...”. The fire is compressed into a mulch pile, which typically means smolder-in-a-yard-bed — the more common summer-2026 call than an actual fully-involved structure.

Amherst · 5817 Transit Road

Fire alarm at Gape’s Collision, 5817 Transit — pulled by workers, cleared avoidable

At 12:39 Amherst Fire tonedized “You stand with fire alarm activation at Gapes Collision 5817 Transit Road”. Twelve minutes later the callback: “That's clear. Lawrenson reset avoidable. East Amherst and Central”. Then, at 13:05 across the county, BFD ran the same script at a Buffalo commercial address: “study reports have been set off by workers, they'll handle the remainder and take their reports”. Contractors-set-off-a-detector is arguably the shift’s dominant genre.

BFD Ch1, 11:15

“May have had gasoline in his ear.”

BFD Ch1 sent Letter 14 and F11 on their way at 11:15. The one-line note tacked onto the top of the response, in a voice that suggested this was neither the first nor the strangest instance: “May have had gasoline in his ear”. The call disappears from the trunk after that; whether the patient had, in fact, gasoline in his ear — or where he’d gotten it — is left as an exercise for the imagination.

Amherst PD, 12:26

She’s tracking his phone right now on Main Street

The most modern-vintage line of the morning came at 12:26, an Amherst PD officer asking for another patrol: “If there's another patrol available, she's tracking her phone right now on Main Street. I'll get some further details in a moment”. Twenty seconds of dead air, then: “We're tracking on the city”, and the call moved to whatever came next. Whoever was tracked, and whoever was doing the tracking, remains a private matter conducted in real time over a public channel.

Buffalo Limo, 14:43

“I'm getting close to the nuts here. I'm trying to sneak one out.”

The Buffalo Limo cross-talk channel remains the beating id of the day’s scanner audio. At 14:43, over a run in progress, an unnamed driver keys up in what one hopes was cargo-inventory context: “I'm getting close to the nuts here”, immediately followed by “I'm trying to sneak one out”, and closed with an unhurried “Let's be clear and have a right of course”. The rest of the exchange — who was clearing what, whose right of course held — is best left un-annotated.

W Seneca school bus, 13:57

RIDICULOUS!

One word, all caps, from the West Seneca school-bus channel at 13:57 exactly. No context above, no context below. Two minutes earlier First Student had reported a gas card that had failed six times. The dispatch and the driver may or may not have been having the same day.

Amherst PD, all morning

The morning Amherst PD kept signing off by asking listeners to subscribe to the YouTube channel

Whisper, the transcription engine we lean on, has a long-running failure mode where low-signal audio hallucinates into fragments of YouTube-narrator boilerplate: “Thanks for watching!”, “If you have any questions or other problems, please post them in the comments section below”, “Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos like this!”, “For more information, please visit www.fema.gov”. Today’s Amherst PD trunk got all four in the span of two hours, along with an appearance of “Subtitles by the Amara.org community” at 12:30. None of them were real speech; all of them were Whisper filling silence with the closest thing in its training data. The scanner audio itself was, presumably, everyone breathing.

Buffalo · 219 Koi

A 25-foot camper on fire in the rear of 219 Koi — $7,500 in damage, knocked down with two-inch and a 14-foot ladder

BFD command called it “25-foot camper in the rear of 219 Koi. We use 2-inch and 3-quarter, 14-foot of ladder. We're going to give it $7,500 in damages” — dispatch checking off Delta 4-3 at 12:36 with a rear-of-property camper going. Handful of engines, no exposures reported.

BNIA · 8-Delta on American

A bleeding passenger in seat 8 Delta on an American departure at Buffalo Niagara — door held, medical requested

On the American ramp control channel at 13:42, one voice to another: “there's a man in 8 Delta and he's bleeding, so they don't know if he's going to have to get off or not”. The next line, back and forth about who called medical, then: “Okay, let's hold on and then wait for, uh, for an interruption”. Whether he got off is not captured on the trunk.

Orchard Park · 14 Edgewater

A female found unconscious on the ground at 14 Edgewater, Orchard Park — possible overdose, breathing

OPFD dispatched Hillcrest and Midway to “Female laying unconscious on the ground, possible overdose, is breathing”. Called and repeated in twenty seconds — the standard cadence for a call likely to end with Narcan on scene.

Cheektowaga · 1753 Walden

83-year-old male in and out of consciousness at 1753 Walden Avenue — Cheektowaga Fire, rescue and EMS

CFD (Cheektowaga Fire) tonedized at 13:33: “Repeating to rescue, request for EMS for the 83 year old male, in and out of consciousness, is breathing. 1753 Walden Avenue”. The 13:29 pre-page from EC Probation on the same address suggests law enforcement was already there when the medical piece came up.

Wendelville · 5000 Segal Road

Patrol on location, scene secure at 5000 Segal Road — 61-year-old male with an eye laceration

Niagara County Fire Control paged Wendelville EMS: “requesting an evaluation for a 61-year-old male with an eye laceration”. Patrol on location, scene secure — BLS priority. The 11:03 companion at Griffin Restaurant (61-year-old male fell and struck his head, previous LOC) may or may not be the same person; the transcript doesn’t say.