East Amherst · Natural-Gas Call

Natural Gas in the Residence; Occupants Feeling Ill

No working detectors at the address; AMR started, EA Fire investigating

At 13:54 East Amherst Fire Dispatch put out a reported odor of natural gas inside an East Amherst residence. The complainants told dispatch they did not have proper detectors, and “they are feeling ill, and we're going to get AMR started” — prompting AMR to be added to the response. National Fuel was on the way; the call had not cleared the channel by the 15:00 window cutoff.

Clarence · Nature's Prize

Sulfur Smell at the Nature's Prize Natural-Foods Store

Crews swept the building, found nothing; cleared in under twenty-five minutes

At 14:31 Amherst Fire dispatched units to investigate a sulfur smell inside Nature's Prize, the natural-foods store at 13035 Main Road. Crews ran detectors through the building and reported back at 14:54: “zero readings — no odors found inside the building”. The call cleared without further escalation.

Williamsville · Tops at Maple-Transit

Vehicle Accident at Tops Friendly Markets, 2351 Maple Road

Main-Transit FD pulled inside the parking lot to work the scene with what was on the road

Amherst Fire toned out at 11:49 for a motor-vehicle accident in the area of Tops Friendly Markets, 2351 Maple Road, between Pounddale Drive and Transit Road. Main-Transit 3 was instructed to “pull inside the top parking lot for us” so crews could work without blocking the through-traffic on Maple. Amherst PD posted to direct traffic on Maple and Transit while the call was held with what was on the road. No injuries were captured on the channel.

Williamsville · Sheridan / Youngs

Wires Arcing on Sheridan; Crews Track a Phantom Up Youngs

Caller pivoted between Maple/Sheridan and Sheridan/Youngs; Main-Transit ran the whole corridor and found no hazard

At 13:12 Amherst Fire dispatched Main-Transit to investigate wires arcing on the north side of Sheridan Drive at Youngs Road. The caller then re-described the location as Maple and Sheridan, then back to Youngs again, leaving dispatch to note the caller “might have been confused on her exact location”. Main-Transit tracked Youngs from Maple all the way to Main and reported back at 13:24: no hazard found, marking it good in time.

Amherst · Lily Ridge

Karate Moves at 25 Lily Ridge

Officers reframed the call as harassment, took the complainant's report on file

At 10:50 Amherst PD got an unusual suspicious-person complaint at 25 Lily Ridge: “a male doing karate moves who keeps putting his hands in his pockets and carrying something in his hands, unknown what”. He was described as wearing “a light gray sweatshirt with a hood over a baseball cap and dark pajamas”. The responding officer worked it on scene and asked to reclassify the call: “you can change this to harassment — I'll be clear with the report on file”. The complainant, Cindy, was taken at the scene.

Amherst · Lenoir Road Welfare Check

Elderly Mother Sends Officers to a Basement at 95 Lenoir

Caller worried about a 64-year-old son who wouldn't answer her repeated phone calls

At 13:19 Amherst PD dispatched on a welfare check at 95 Lenoir Road. Per dispatch, “elderly female caller is worried about her 64-year-old son who lives in the basement”, and “she's been calling him repeatedly with no answer”. The dispatcher added a caveat: “she does also sound a bit confused”. A patrol unit took the call.

BNIA · Delta Ramp

Bagpipes Will Get There Before the People

A Delta ramp agent at Buffalo Niagara delivers the day's most resigned travel-day truth

Two checked bags had been loaded onto a Buffalo-to-Seattle Delta flight earlier in the day. The flight was now scheduled instead to Atlanta. The ramp asked whether to pull the bags or send them on with the plane to Atlanta; the reroute was confirmed, no upstairs hold. The agent's verdict on the bags' future, broadcast for everyone with a scanner: “bagpipes will probably get to the destination before the people”.

Wende CF · NYS DOCCS

Wende C.O. Files a Two-Sentence Status Update

A scrap from the state-corrections radio that reads like an HR memo from inside a freeway

A NYS DOCCS officer at Wende Correctional in Alden — normally a quiet trunk on the WNY scanner — came up at 12:06 with back-to-back transmissions that landed verbatim as: “I'll be resuming my collaboration”, and then, four seconds later: “traffic is weird, I can't control it”. Both clear, no further traffic.

Williamsville · Tim Hortons, 2290 Millersport

The Repeat Counterfeiter and the Stall at Tim Hortons

Staff held the customer mid-transaction while Amherst PD rolled; her description is unimprovable

Amherst PD got a call at 11:02 from the Tim Hortons at 2290 Millersport Highway: a customer was trying to pass a fake $100, the staff were stalling her, and “she's done this before”. Her description landed on the radio in three short bursts: “older white female, blonde with a blue jacket”. A cover unit was assigned almost immediately. By 11:03 the dispatcher had called it up to the responding officer in nearly identical language — unmistakably a familiar one for the storefront staff.

Williamsville · Tops, 3500 Main

Tops on Main Pulls a Hat Trick: Shoplifter at Noon, Family with a Stroller by 1:30

Two separate calls at the same store, two very different suspect descriptions, two different responses

At 11:58 Amherst PD dispatched a shoplifting-in-progress at Tops, 3500 Main Street: a suspect last seen eastbound Main Street on foot, described as “a black male wearing a black jacket, red hoodie, black pants, black facemask, in their late 20s”. “they will press charges, but they recovered merchandise”, the dispatcher added a few seconds later. By the time officers checked the area, the suspect's hat had upgraded to “dark jacket, dark hoodie, dark pants, red LA Dodgers hat”. They will press charges.

An hour and a half later the same store called again: four people total — two adults, two juveniles — with a remarkably specific outfit-by-outfit description, including “a third white female, brown hair, ponytail, and a red shirt with a stroller”. By 13:37 the male party had left; officers held the two females and the juvenile for follow-up.

Attica Bus · 14:56

An Attica School Bus Driver Will Determine Why You Don't Understand Her Honk

The day's most authentic Whisper transcript, captured in a single sentence

From the only Attica Bus transmission captured all afternoon, broadcast in the clear and recorded as-is: “and find out why he doesn't understand my honk”.

Cheektowaga · SharpBusLine

“This Is My Swinging Gun” — from a SharpBus Driver in Cheektowaga

Filed under context-free transmissions that did not return for follow-up

SharpBus is the cross-border charter line that ferries crews between Buffalo and Toronto, and most of its scanner traffic is shift logistics. This one came in at 13:50:59 from a driver pressing the talk button on Canadian-Transport simulcast and saying, in full: “this is my swinging gun”. No one came back to ask.

East Amherst · Family Practice

Rapidly Deteriorating 80-Year-Old at the Eastern Family Practice

At 12:00 East Amherst Fire dispatched an EMS run to the Eastern Family Practice (use the rear entrance, dispatch advised). Staff reported “an 80-year-old female with severe difficulty breathing, AFib — staff reports a rapidly deteriorating patient”, with an AFib history; ALS priority was assigned and the call cleared on AMR.

Lancaster · Bowmansville

Small Contained Fire at the Vandenberg Group Generator

Lancaster Fire Dispatch repeated tones at 13:14 to Bowmansville Mutually Current Index to investigate “a possibly contained small fire to the generator area” at the Vandenberg Group. By 13:44 crews on scene reported they were ventilating and working a reset on the alarm panel. No injuries on the channel.

Niagara County · New Jane Health Facility, Lockport

Miller Hose Tone-Out for a 73-Year-Old in Respiratory Distress

Niagara County Fire toned out a second set of tones at 11:24 for Miller Hose to take an EMS call at the New Jane Health Facility, 2709 Transit Road, room 134, for a 73-year-old female with “difficulty breathing and a rampant heart rate, no relief with oxygen”. ALS priority recommended; ambulance dispatched.

Eggertsville · Bailey at Maple Office Park

Zone-5 Water-Flow Alarm at the Maple Office Park

Amherst Fire dispatched a commercial fire-alarm activation at 08:56 at the Maple Office Park, Building C, Bailey Avenue, between Argosy Drive and Maple Road — a Zone 5 water-flow alarm. Crews resolved it as a pump issue and advised the building to seek service; the alarm could not be reset on-site and Eggertsville was returned to service at 09:26.