Amherst · Kids Home Alone

Dad’s 911 About Three Children Home Alone Ends With A Small Child On Its Way To Suburban

At 12:03 p.m., an Amherst PD dispatcher relayed an unsettling complaint on the Amherst-Clarence trunk: “Dad's a complainant. Not on location reports. The 2-year-old, 7-year-old and 9-year-old are home alone”. Officers were dispatched immediately, and the trunk went busy with overlapping traffic — East Amherst Fire had an EMS run into Wegmans at 8270 Transit Road at almost the same minute, and a separate PD complaint about a driver going northbound in the southbound lanes rolled in seconds later.

By 12:22 the situation had reshaped itself: an officer on scene reported “a two-year-old on location,” dispatch was working the phones to reach family, and by 12:25 the dispatcher noted they had “made contact with family members to be able to talk.” At 12:26 Amherst Fire coded a single patient to Millard Fillmore Suburban on Goodrich Road; at 12:28 Twin City confirmed the transport: “One small child with Amherst Police.”

Amherst · Niagara Falls Boulevard

Injury MVA in the Middle of the Boulevard Near Irvington

Amherst PD called out an injury accident at 2695 Niagara Falls Boulevard[*], between Irwin and Irvington, at 1:17 p.m. — the vehicles coming to rest in the middle of the road. Ellicott Creek 1 responded and Commerce 239 handled the ambulance, per Amherst Fire Dispatch.

The dispatcher on scene relayed a 68-year-old female with minor leg injuries needing an evaluation and a second party “complaining of neck pain level.” No extrication requests came over the air, and by 1:37 units were letting arriving cars “slow it down — appears to be no injuries” beyond the two already handed to medical. The road stayed open in both directions.

Getzville · North Forest

Getzville MVA on North Forest Turns Into A Walk-In EMS

Amherst Fire Dispatch paged a report of a motor vehicle accident on North Forest Road[*] at 11:41 a.m., and by 11:44 Getzville 9 was responding with Command 6 en route. Dispatchers pinned the scene at a cross with Maple Road[*] — the intersection the incident commander wanted kept open.

The scene settled fast. The commander on scene told units to stage, keep the intersection open, and “walk your crew down with an EMS bag” — the kind of tactical downshift that means no extrication, no fluids, no fire. Twin City signed and released with Amherst Fire at 11:50; all Getzville units cleared to Channel 2 for operations.

Amherst · North French Road

Manager Calls PD Over Yelling And Thrown Objects At A North French Apartment

A complex manager on North French Road[*] [heard: French Road] phoned Amherst PD at 1:48 p.m. after someone reported “yelling coming from the apartment and things being thrown around”. Two females were said to be inside; the call was booked as a disturbance and dispatched to Apartment 4.

Amherst dispatch pulled a history flag as the units were rolling: an adult subject on file at the address, tagged as schizophrenic and “stopped taking his medication” per the caller, described by dispatch as “very irate and aggressive.” The check was closed on scene without a transport tone within the window.

BuffaloLimo · Passenger Diagnostics

‘Four Toes Left’ — A BuffaloLimo Driver’s Radio Postmortem

The most memorable transmission of the eight-hour window was volunteered without prompting into the BuffaloLimo dispatch trunk at 10:02 a.m., describing what appears to be a fare not proceeding as planned: “He had his shoes off because he had four toes left. He couldn't figure it out”. Dispatch offered no follow-up. The passenger, and the toes, went into the void.

Amherst Water · Curbside Complaint

A Woman Crosses The Street To Tell Amherst Water Her Manhole Smells

An Amherst Water lineman radioed base at 10:36 a.m. with a fully unsolicited curbside report: “The lady approached me from across the street at 3:20. She says her manhole smells. I still couldn't do it smelling”. He was, by his own admission, unable to detect the smell himself and indicated he would circle back with a longer look. Public works, live and unedited.

Amherst PD · A Man At His Own Door

‘He’s Outside, Out Front, But He’s Extremely Confused And Doesn’t Recognize The House’

An Amherst officer at 8:22 a.m., taking stock of the situation on scene, relayed a description that will land with anyone who has ever aged, or watched someone age: “He's outside, out front, but he's extremely confused and doesn't recognize the house”. The officer's next question was whether Twin City should roll for an evaluation. The call cleared on-scene without a transport tone in the window.

Amherst PD · Roma Cuisine

A Customer Calls Amherst PD Because Roma Cuisine’s Doors Are Open And The Lights Are Off

At the top of the 1 o'clock hour, an Amherst PD unit was dispatched to a welfare check at Roma Cuisine, 964 Maple Road[*]. The complainant was a customer, and the reason for the concern was operational: “the business doors are open. There's no employees on site and the lights are off”. The lot was quiet enough for the customer to notice. Something about the anxiety of an empty restaurant with an open door — the reversed order of a lunchtime — was worth a call.

Amherst PD · Quartino’s

The Suspicious $50: Woman Returns To Her Car At Quartino’s, Finds A Bill On It

Amherst PD took a call at 1:42 p.m. as a “suspicious occurrence” at Quartino's, 5640 Main Street[*]: a woman had come out to her vehicle and found a $50 bill on it. Dispatch sent an officer to meet the complainant out front. It is not, in this county, a crime to leave money on someone's car — but it is unusual enough to be a story.

Orchard Park · PetSmart

A Pet Groomer, In And Out Of Consciousness, At The Orchard Park PetSmart

OPFD Dispatch at 2:12 p.m., unglamorously: 3425 Amelia at the PetSmart, “for a groomer in and out of consciousness with a possible head injury”. Ambulance 882 available. The groomer's animal is not on the record. The window closed with the response still in progress.

Lancaster · Live Wires Down

Live Wires Down And Possibly On Fire On Genesee Street

Lancaster Fire Control paged out at 2:00 p.m. for live wires down and possibly on fire in front of a business at 5799 Genesee Street[*]. Lancaster Fire Dispatch cleared the initial page and the incident was still on the trunk when the PM window closed. National Grid coordination was not audible on the scanner traffic within the window.

Hamburg · Gas Leak

Struck Gas Meter Leaks At Hamburg Mobile Home Park

T-Hamburg Fire Dispatch toned Lakeshore at 10:50 a.m. for a struck gas meter leaking gas at 5455 Southwestern Boulevard — a Hamburg mobile home park, lot 33. Lakeshore 9-1 was en route with a full-time crew within minutes; no evacuation tones went over the air, and the scene closed off the main dispatch trunk shortly after.

Cheektowaga · Welfare Check

Wandering Kids, Parents Asleep After Long Shifts

A Cheektowaga PD unit closed out a welfare check at 10:30 a.m. with a summary that speaks to the schedule of shift work in the suburbs: “children returned home safely before arrival, male child has autism, parents were both work long hours, we're asleep at this time”.

The officer's disposition, per dispatch, was to file a DIR for information and to route a referral to Adult Protective Services rather than to charge — the parents were “advised there will be no charges at this time. I'll be doing a DIR for info. ACPS referral”.