Lancaster Village
Lancaster Fire dispatched to West Main Street at 2:28 PM for a commercial alarm activation and got, on the air, the cause of the trip: “Alarm set off by burnt marshmallow from Big Papa Kitchen”. Code enforcement was handed the follow-up, the village was put back in service at 2:28 PM, and Big Papa's kitchen went back to whatever it was doing.
Buffalo — East Side
A Buffalo Police district supervisor hollered over the BPD C–E channel just after 2:26 PM for any available SRO cars at Grider and Delavan: “SR-4, SR-4, can you have Grider Delavan, I heard his flag bouncing, there was 10 kids trying to fight one, Grider Delavan”. SR-2 headed that way. Two minutes later the same supervisor called it off: “As our cars head that way, you can slow down. They’re just standing around right now”.
Cheektowaga
Cheektowaga Fire dispatched Pine Hill Truck 6, U-Crest 91, and Sloan Rescue to 105 Maple View at 2:25 PM for an alarm activation at Cleveland Hill Elementary. U-Crest 91 arrived to find the building evacuated with nothing showing; crews traced the trip to a smoke detector being replaced at door 14 and got the panel reset by 2:31 PM.
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A midday hush across the wires: no Tier 1 hits, no watchlist properties in traffic, and no valid follow-ups to this morning's edition (Fairgreen overdose, Casimir/Gorski bicyclist strike, Williamsville View Manor cardiac arrest all cleared before the window opened). The working PM export was the mid-afternoon live-wire slice ending 2:44 PM — a thin catchment of routine fire-alarm resets, one hip-fracture EMS run, one chest-pain response, and a Buffalo brawl call that resolved before the SR cars arrived. Lancaster Village's marshmallow-triggered alarm gave the day its one bit of genuine dispatch color.
“Alarm set off by burnt marshmallow from Big Papa Kitchen”
— Lancaster Fire Dispatch, West Main Street, 2:28 PM
| Bucket | Segs |
|---|---|
| Police | 111 |
| Fire / EMS | 87 |
| Other | 15 |
| Rail / maritime | 2 |
| Airport / aviation | 2 |
| Bucket | Segs |
|---|---|
| Buffalo | 71 |
| Cheektowaga / Lancaster / Depew | 68 |
| Other Erie County | 44 |
| Williamsville & Amherst | 20 |
| Countywide | 14 |
Working PM export was a mid-afternoon live-wire slice (14:23–14:38 window, 217 segments across four systems); daily consolidated export was not present at run time. Agency and area buckets derived from that slice only.