Snyder · Wiltshire Road Working Fire

Working house fire on Wiltshire Road in Snyder pulls a second alarm before 8 a.m.

One-and-a-half-story split-level, heavy fire in the rear extending into the attic; $150K in contents reported.

Amherst Fire Dispatch put out the call at 07:37 for a reported house fire — originally given as 84 Wiltshire Road, quickly amended to 109 Wiltshire Road, between Morningstar Court and the west end of Wiltshire. Within four minutes Amherst PD on scene confirmed a working structure fire, and command pushed operations to channel 2. A unit on arrival described “one-and-a-half-story split-level, heavy fire in the rear, extending to the attic,” with dark gray smoke coming from the roof.

By 08:04, with bedroom-to-attic extension confirmed, command struck the second alarm; Snyder, Eggertsville, and a Main–Transit pumper task force were brought in, with mutual-aid units staged at the west end of Wiltshire and Morningstar. A hydrant was used at 87 Wiltshire, and at 10:34 the chief told Amherst Fire Dispatch the loss estimate was approximately $150,000 in contents, with the Erie County Water Authority to be notified for the hydrant draw. The chief did not report any occupants inside at the time of the call.

Eggertsville · Tim Hortons parking lot

Sixteen-year-old on a bicycle struck by a car at the Sheridan/Sweet Home Tim Hortons

At 12:47, Amherst Fire Dispatch sent units to the Tim Hortons parking lot at 3394 Sheridan Drive, between Augusta Avenue and Sweet Home Road in Eggertsville, for a sixteen-year-old female on a bicycle struck by a car. Dispatch immediately characterized the injuries as minor; Amherst PD signed on shortly after and reported the patient was conscious and being checked on scene. No transport priority was upgraded on the air.

Amherst · Georgetown Plaza

Injury accident in the Georgetown Plaza lot on Sheridan Drive

At 10:09, Amherst PD dispatched two units to an injury accident at 5225 Sheridan Drive in the Georgetown Plaza parking lot. Officers reported the involved vehicle was “in the lot”; no priority upgrade was requested, and the call appears to have been handled by the responding cars without fire-side dispatch.

Amherst · Sweet Home Road

Suspicious 4Runner reported parked at 885 Sweet Home Road ball field

At 10:15, an Amherst PD unit at 885 Sweet Home Road radioed in a Silver Toyota 4Runner with California plates that had reportedly been in the parking lot for three days, identified by the unit as belonging to a homeless man, with a complaint that an 80-year-old male occupant had been taking pictures of children at the adjacent ball field. The officer asked for the call to be logged and stayed on scene to investigate; no arrest or further action was reported on the air through the end of the window.

Williamsville · Transit Road

Crumbl Cookies commercial alarm activation at 5205 Transit Road

Amherst Fire Dispatch ran a commercial seal-detector activation at 5205 Transit Road — Crumbl Cookies — at 07:16, between Sheridan Drive and Greiner Road, with no voice contact at the panel. Williamsville Fire investigated and was back in service by 09:30 with the panel reset and no fire confirmed. A second Transit-Road commercial alarm — a fire alarm activation at 5105 Transit Road at the Dick’s Clothing location — came in at 14:16 from the same dispatcher; the two are unrelated.

Amherst PD · 09:56

Lend Me Your Ear, Doc: 44-year-old runs the cotton swab too deep

Amherst PD picked up a call at 09:56 that the dispatcher boiled down to nine words: “44-year-old female with a Q-tip stuck in her ear.” No further detail was relayed on the air. The response went out without lights or hysteria — the most weaponized noun in the apartment was the cotton swab.

Amherst PD · 12:03

Whole Foods, Whole Wardrobe: woman in head-to-toe black yells at lunch crowd

Just after noon, Amherst PD got a single complaint about a woman “all dressed in black” screaming at customers in front of Whole Foods, 3139 Sheridan Drive. The responding officer arrived to find the situation already resolving — by 12:10 the call was clear; presumably the subject moved on, or so did the patience of the breakfast-burrito crowd.

Amherst PD · 07:17

Behind Bob’s: the silver Monte Carlo with the gasoline smell and the sleeping driver

Two rounds of dispatches at 07:17 and 07:40 painted the picture in stages. First, behind Bob’s Discount Furniture, an Amherst PD officer reported a man “ran out of gas” and appeared to be homeless. By 07:40 the same officer (or a unit on a related stop) was describing a silver Monte Carlo that “smells like gasoline” with what “appears (to be) someone sleeping in it.” Whether it was the same car or two parallel tales of vehicular dishevelment, the dispatch did not say.

Clarence Highway · 07:33

The Pumpkinville Patrol: Clarence Highway sends a crew through the gourds to check for brush

On the Clarence Highway channel at 07:33, an unidentified supervisor radioed an outbound truck with the kind of instruction that only makes sense if you grew up here: “Can you take a right through Pumpkinville and see if there’s any brush in there?” No follow-up was heard, which we choose to read as: there was, in fact, brush in there.

Maritime Ops · 10:59

Watch for the Racehorse: Coast Guard puts out a sailing-vessel advisory for the lower lake

Marine 22A-1022 — the lake-side Coast Guard working channel — broadcast at 10:59 a securité advising mariners on what we believe to be a sailboat race course: “Be alert for stationary vertical race moves, sailing vessel rapid course changes, as well as vessels transiting to and from the racehorse.” The transcript heard “racehorse”; the speaker almost certainly said “race course.”

South Buffalo · Solar farm inverter fire

Inverter box catches fire at the Sunwell solar farm off the Union Ship Canal

BFD Ch1 dispatch worked a fire at the Sunwell solar farm on the Union Ship Canal side of South Buffalo from 11:35. Crews had to cut through a perimeter gate because the property had no access road from the Sunwell parcel; BFD reached the Uniland maintenance team on the property and the plant’s type manager came to the scene. EPA was advised it was about 10 minutes out. By 12:38, command on car 4-6 confirmed the fire was “an inverter box for the solar farm, contained in one unit” — no spread, the unit isolated electrically.