Buffalo · Washington Street · Ramp Rescue

11-Year-Old Threatens to Jump From a Downtown Parking Ramp

A ramp worker told police a boy was standing at the top of the Washington Street garage, looking as if he meant to go over the edge.

At 11:08 AM, Buffalo police pushed a car toward 343 Washington after a male worker at the ramp reported an 11-year-old boy on the top floor of the parking garage who, in the worker's words, looked like he was going to jump. Dispatch had already added AMR 73, a rescue squad and a county ladder to the response.

Within a minute the air brought relief: dispatch advised the responding officer that Transit Police were already out with the child and would wait for city units to arrive. The urgency drained from the channel as quickly as it had built.

Cattaraugus County · Vandalia · Pursuit

Off-Duty Officer's Chase Near Vandalia Pulls in Homeland Security and Marshals

A high-speed pursuit of a Pennsylvania-plated car ended at a Route 417 smoke shop, where federal agents turned up alongside the sheriff.

Starting around 8:52 AM, Cattaraugus sheriff's dispatch tracked a fast-moving pursuit of a Pennsylvania-registered vehicle along Route 417 near Vandalia, with an off-duty Allegheny, Pennsylvania officer following at speeds reported around 90 mph past Ron's Smoke Shop.

The vehicle came to a stop, and the response drew an unusual federal cast: a Homeland Security agent turned up on scene, and marshals ultimately cleared the scene. For a rural stretch of Cattaraugus County, it was a striking convergence of agencies over a single stopped car.

Buffalo · Albert Street · Red-Flag Search

Red Flag on Albert Street: Armed, Wanted, and a Latin Kings Tie

Dispatch warned a Buffalo officer of a felony-domestic suspect said to be armed and gang-affiliated, tied to a last-known address off Taunton.

At 10:28 AM, as a Buffalo officer moved to clear what he called a civil matter near Taunton, dispatch stopped him with a warning: there was a red flag on the address. The subject, named on the air as Elijah Smith with a last known address of 99 Albert, was said to be in possession of a firearm, a member of the Latin Kings, and wanted on numerous felony domestic charges.

Dispatch described his last known vehicle as a black Jeep with an unknown plate, likely registered to his mother at the Albert Street address. Moments later a supervisor asked for an SVU detective to be routed to a private channel, a sign the case was being handled with the care an armed, wanted domestic suspect demands.

Williamsville · Transit Road · Industrial Injury

Clamp-Door Machine Ejects a Door, Mangling a Worker's Arm on Transit Road

A door-frame machine threw its load at 11350 Transit Road, catching a worker's arm and leaving him severely injured but conscious.

At 9:24 AM, Amherst fire units responded to 11350 Transit Road, near North French Road, for an industrial injury. What the caller described was a clamp-down machine used to press doors into frames — and when the door ejected, it caught a man's arm and gave him a severe injury.

A chief on the air confirmed the key detail with dispatch: the man was not trapped in the machine. As the crew put it, it was the door's ejection that did the damage, leaving him free and clear but badly hurt and conscious. A supervisor was routed to the scene as Swormville 9 arrived.

Cheektowaga · Rio Street · Child Protection

Two Young Children Removed From a Rio Street Home as Parent Resists

Child Protection was inside a lower east-side house pulling a 10-year-old and a 1-year-old when police were called to back them up.

At 11:35 AM, Cheektowaga police were sent to 45 Rio, on the lower east side between Walden and Straley, to meet Child Protection workers who were already inside the house. They were carrying out the removal of a 10-year-old and a 1-year-old, and dispatch relayed that the subject there was being uncooperative.

A follow-up call from Child Protection reported the complainant waiting on the porch and warned that the subject might be intoxicated. Officers arriving on location began checking whether she was still on probation as they took up positions to see the removal through.

Buffalo · Lawn Avenue · AWOL Student

Six-Year-Old Walks Off School Grounds Onto Military Road, Principal in Pursuit

A little girl in a dark blue school uniform slipped away from 225 Lawn and headed onto Military Road, with staff trailing behind.

At 9:50 AM, a Buffalo school resource officer put out an AWOL call from 225 Lawn: a six-year-old female student had walked off, described as a young girl in a dark blue school uniform with her hair in a ponytail, out on Military Road with the principal following behind.

The scare was short-lived. Within a few minutes staff confirmed the student was back at the school, and an officer walked in to verify it in person — "per the staff, they do have that student back at the school."

Buffalo · Skyway

A Dog-Like Creature on the Skyway, and a Very Dry Officer

Someone swore something canine was crossing the outbound Skyway. The camera check went about how you'd expect.

At 9:52 AM, a caller insisted to Buffalo police that a dog-like creature was walking across the outbound Skyway — that soaring, shoulderless span where nothing on four legs has any business being. An officer relayed the report to animal control with the deadpan of someone who has heard it all: they had checked the cameras, and the creature was nowhere to be found. "That's clear," the channel concluded, and the Skyway kept its secret.

Buffalo · East Side · Fire Line

"It Just Over-Filled": A Fire Rig Caught Leaking Diesel Mid-Code

As Engine 32 worked a cardiac arrest, someone noticed one of the rigs quietly puddling fuel.

At 10:08 AM, in the middle of a working code on Hamburg Street, the fire channel took a turn toward the everyday humiliations of the job. "You aware your rig is leaking diesel fuel?" came the query. The answer was the stuff of gas-station shrugs everywhere: "Uh, it just over-filled." Dispatch sighed it off — "Copy, Ladder 7's gonna clean it up for me, thank you" — and got the reply that made the whole exchange: "You're not welcome."

Buffalo · Third Floor Laundry

The Great Dryer Scare of 10:43 AM

Truck 7 climbed to a third-floor laundry room braced for the worst and found a dryer letting off steam.

At 10:43 AM, Truck 7 hauled up to a third-floor laundry room, investigated, and radioed the anticlimax back to the chief: "there's a malfunction, set off light steam from the dryer, we can handle." Dispatch spread the all-clear to any company still spinning up — steam from a dryer, Truck 7 has it — and the building's fire alarm returned to its regular hobby of crying wolf.

BNIA · American Ramp

Shaq's on the Flight: A Ramp Agent's Best Radio Call of the Day

Susan Cowby had one thing the office needed to know about the inbound.

At 10:21 AM, ramp agent Susan Cowby got on the line to the office with the kind of bulletin that makes a shift: "Shaq is on that flight with me." No gate change, no delay, no fuel figure — just a heads-up that a 7-foot-1 legend was somewhere in the arriving load. The wires carry a lot of numbers; this one carried a name.

Hamburg · Fire Line

"Coach, He Was Very Concerned About You"

A moment of clipped, unexplained warmth on the Hamburg fire channel.

At 10:04 AM, between EMS pages, the Hamburg fire channel offered a small, human aside with no setup and no punchline: "Coach, he was very concerned about you." "Yeah, he was." Whoever they meant, and whatever the concern, the whole exchange landed and moved on — the sort of two-line kindness that slips out over a radio built for addresses and unit numbers.

Snyder · Pediatric Medical

Snyder Boy, 8, Seizes and Struggles to Breathe on Sunrise Boulevard

At 7:36 AM, Snyder Fire and EMS were dispatched to 359 Sunrise Boulevard near London Lane for an eight-year-old boy reported to be seizing and having trouble breathing.

Amherst Fire units responding from near the 290 corridor were advised en route that the boy was “becoming more alert now”, a hopeful sign as crews continued toward the scene.

Kenmore · Missing Patient

Psychiatric Patient Bolts From Kenmore Mercy in Hospital Gown, Found Hiding in Parking Lot

At 1:49 PM, Tonawanda Police were sent to the Ciminelli parking lot at 2950 Wood Avenue, next to Kenmore Mercy Hospital, for a white female with brown hair who “ran out of the hospital” while wearing a blue hospital gown.

Dispatch advised she had been admitted to the hospital with schizophrenia and was found “hiding under the door in the lot” in the lot; two units were sent to check the area including the hospital's Elmwood-side and ER-side parking sections.

Buffalo · Tanker Rollover

Tanker Truck Overturns at Almond and Broadway, Trapping Driver as Diesel and Oil Spill Into Sewer

At 10:52 AM, Buffalo Fire sent a heavy response — Engine 1, Ladder 2, Rescue 1 and Battalions 41, 43, 45 and 55 — to Almond Street and Broadway for a motor vehicle accident involving an overturned tanker truck; dispatch reported it was “unknown what's on the tanker”, with the caller too far away to see any placards, and a person trapped in a second vehicle. Police were also requested for traffic control.

Battalion 4-3 arrived to find a two-car crash with the tanker flipped on its side and radioed that the rig had been hauling water, resulting in “water leaking into the sewer system”, along with diesel “leaking from the saddle tank” and oil leaking from the engine; crews briefly discussed a full Level 1 hazmat activation before scaling the response back down.

Rescue 1 worked to free the trapped occupant as additional engines staged nearby, and by 11:02 AM Battalion 5-3 reported “3,500 gallons worth of water in the rig or tanker” had drained into the sewer system, the patient had been extricated from the car, and the tanker's driver was walking to an ambulance to be checked out; command called the scene “seems to be under control at this point in time” and released most companies back into service.

Buffalo · School Bus Injuries

First Student Bus Injures Three of 60 Children in Hard Stop at Forest and Grant

At 7:52 AM, Buffalo Fire dispatched Engine 37, Ladder 4 and F20 to a motor vehicle accident involving a school bus at Forest Avenue and Grant Street, with 60 children reported on board.

Ladder 5 arrived to find a two-car MVA, and a chief on scene reported the crash followed a hard stop — a First Student dispatcher had radioed that the driver had to brake suddenly — with three of the 60 children aboard injured.

Truck 5 reported “no entrapment” and command picked up the rescue company, releasing it back to service as Engine 3 arrived on location.

Buffalo · Stolen Vehicle Recovery

OnStar Tracking Leads Buffalo Police to Loaded Glock in Lockbox on Henry Robert

Just after 1 PM, a Buffalo Police car radioed that a stolen-vehicle call originally placed at Wellington Avenue actually belonged at Henry Robert, and that officers were working the phone with OnStar to track the vehicle.

The tracking led officers to the vehicle, where a loaded Glock handgun was recovered from a lockbox inside, according to the radio traffic.

Buffalo · Hospital Elopement

Suicidal Man in Hospital Gown Bolts From Sisters ER, Held by Security Near Kenmore

At 7:54 AM, Buffalo Police were called to Sisters Hospital after security reported a suicidal black male had run out of the emergency room in a blue gown.

Security caught up to him and held him on Kenmore Avenue[*] [heard: Kentrington] near the hospital, across from the National Grid building, and requested police assistance; two units were sent to the scene.

Buffalo · Second Hospital Elopement

Second Patient of the Morning Slips Away, Reported Down at Main Street Train Station

Minutes after the first elopement, an officer at Sisters Hospital radioed that a second man was unaccounted for, with security saying he was down at the train station on Main Street.

Dispatch put out a description — a Black male, 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10, no shirt, heavily tattooed, blue jogger pants and hospital socks — and notified NFTA, which sent units to check cameras and search the main station.

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Buffalo · Stolen Vehicle, Firearm Recovered

Buffalo Police Corner Stolen Truck With Gun Inside, Arrest Two After Foot Chase

At 1:12 PM, Buffalo Police radioed that a pickup truck moving north on Jefferson Avenue from Dodge Street was a stolen vehicle out of the Delta District with a firearm inside — a gray Chevy Colorado, plate HRH5307.

OnStar tracking walked units through Northampton Street past Mastin Street and back eastbound toward Jefferson, with a dispatcher cautioning over the air that “this is not a pursuit”, before the truck stopped behind a parking lot at Jefferson Avenue and Dodge Street.

Two men bailed out and ran on foot — one in a red hoodie — but officers caught both within minutes, one in the lot and the second in a nearby yard, with a second address given on Dodge Street for booking.

Kensington-Eggert · Missing Child Report

Autistic Girl, 5, Missing Two Hours Between Daycare Pickup and School Drop-Off

At 2:08 PM, Buffalo Police took a report from a woman at Kensington Avenue and Eggert Road, waiting in a gold Nissan, that her five-year-old autistic daughter had been picked up from daycare by a school bus at 8 a.m. but was not dropped off at school until two hours later, in the West Park area.

Orchard Park · Medical Emergency

Nurse Can't Get Blood Pressure as Roswell Park Patient Fades In and Out of Consciousness

At 1:09 PM, Orchard Park Fire requested a mutual-aid ambulance to Roswell Park on Orchard Park Road for a 50-year-old woman in and out of consciousness; a nurse on scene said the patient was breathing but that staff “were unable to get a pressure on her”.

Dispatch upgraded the call to a hot response by 1:10 PM as an engine crew headed to the scene.

Arcade · Cardiac Arrest

Arcade Cardiac Arrest Draws Multiple Units Before Local Ambulance Takes Over

Wyoming County Fire dispatched Medic 83 at 10:20 AM to 49 Southview Drive in the Arcadia Mills community for an 85-year-old man in cardiac arrest, called in by a third party.

Additional units — a second unit identified on the air as 93, plus Arcade 1 North and Warsaw's Medic 2 — were sent to assist before dispatch released Medic 83 back into service and let Arcade handle the call directly.

Attica · Medical Emergency

Defibrillator Fires on 77-Year-Old Man in Attica McDonald's Lot

At 12:28 PM, Wyoming County Fire dispatch sent Arcade Ambulance to McDonald's at 700 Main Street in Attica for a 77-year-old man found in a white pickup truck in the parking lot whose defibrillator had discharged.

Arcade's Medic 83 and Warsaw's Medic 2 both went en route, with Arcade 1 arriving on scene minutes later; by 12:32 PM, Medic 83 had cleared back into service with Medic 2 handling the call.

Lakewood · Vehicle Into Structure

Car Plows Into Lakewood Campground House, Crews Call for Technical Rescue and Helicopter

Just after 1:31 PM, Chautauqua County Fire dispatch reported a vehicle had crashed into a house at a lakeside campground in Lakewood, with the car coming to rest in the structure's basement.

Crews on the air requested a technical rescue team to reach the vehicle inside the basement and asked for a helicopter to stand by for medevac, with the extent of any occupant's injuries not stated on the air by 2:02 PM.

Jamestown · Armed Subject

Sword-Wielding Man Reported on South Main Street in Jamestown

At 11:49 AM, Jamestown Police were dispatched after a caller reported a man armed with a sword on South Main Street; the dispatcher told the caller to keep their distance from the subject while officers responded.

Jamestown · Wildlife Complaint

Deer-Shooting Report at Jackson Taylor Park Draws DEC Referral

Jamestown Police received a report at 1:00 PM of a man actively shooting a deer near the pavilion at Jackson Taylor Park; dispatchers said the state Department of Environmental Conservation would be contacted to follow up.

Chautauqua County · Well-Being Check

Facebook Posts About Self-Harm Send Deputies to North Road Home

At 10:00 AM, Chautauqua County dispatch sent units to 9862 North Road for a well-being check after a caller reported that a man identified on dispatch as Jacob Pye had been making “off-the-wall comments on a Facebook post about harming himself or other people”, and asked that his stepfather also be contacted as part of the check.