Williamsville · Main Street

Bicyclist Hit in Front of the Main Street Eye Doctor; Green Jeep Leaves the Scene

Amherst PD was pulled to 5500 Main Street in the center of Williamsville at 3:16 PM to meet a complainant standing in a group of teenagers outside the optometrist there.

Dispatch: “…a male that was riding his bike, stopped and hit them, and then left in a green Jeep… white male, balding with a beard, wearing a high-visibility green construction shirt”. Cars checked northbound to Maple and southbound to Kenmore and found nothing showing.

Amherst · Maple Road

Elderly Man Down, Bleeding, on Maple Road in Front of the Solar Salons

At 3:14 PM Amherst Fire Dispatch pushed an EMS run to Maple Road in front of the solar salons between Palmdale Drive and Transit Road — an elderly male had fallen in the street and was bleeding from a head injury.

Newstead · Akron Village

Predawn Seizure Call at 95 Main in Akron Village Downgraded from Full to Cold Response

At 4:47 AM Amherst Fire Dispatch initially put Akron EMS in as a full response to 95 Main Street at Clinton and Church for a 60-year-old male who possibly had a seizure and wasn’t looking for evaluation. Twenty seconds later dispatch corrected downward to a cold response — an infrequent, welcome direction for that hour.

FRS 15 · Lockport

A Retired Water-Treatment Operator Waxes Philosophical on Repeaters, Walkie-Talkies, and the Vanished Craft of the CB Call Sign

For the better part of an hour on FRS 15, an amateur-radio hobbyist — sign-off WSKQ976 — held court from a hilltop in Lockport on the mysteries of repeater topography, the pleasures of a 725-watt pair at 141.3 PL, and how his 37 years as a water-treatment plant operator gave him the discipline he now channels into radio.

The unbroken monologue included the confession “I don’t even dare think about counting up how many HTs I have” and the world-weary observation “This is back when you needed a call sign for CB”. He also announced his hope of doing more GMRS with the group and thanked “Katie” before signing off monitoring.

Amherst · Whisper hallucination

Amherst Fire Signs Off With a YouTube Outro, Then Wishes Us a Nice Day Three Times in a Row

Between 3:20 PM and 3:21 PM the Whisper transcription of dead-air on the Amherst Fire Dispatch trunk produced one of its more heartfelt hallucinations: “Thank you for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it. Have a nice day. Have a nice day. Have a nice day.”, followed by three consecutive “Have a nice day.” Earlier in the shift, at 3:09 PM, Amherst PD had helpfully reminded listeners to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more videos like this. The scanner does not, of course, have a YouTube channel.

BNIA · Delta Ramp

“Olean on the Ground”: BNIA Delta Ramp Confirms Regional Arrival in Two Words

At 3:39 PM the Delta ramp channel dispensed with all fuss and simply announced “Olean on the ground”. That is a full sentence for the ramp — a completed flight, a plane on stand, and back to whatever is next.

ITOA · Cab dispatch

Cab Dispatcher Delivers Life-Story Epitaph Between Fares

At 5:37 PM the ITOA 463.95 taxi channel produced, without preamble or context, this arc-of-a-life summary: “He was in the hospital, in ICU, then he was in a regular hospital, then he was in a nursing facility, and then he died”. On the same channel two hours earlier a driver noted that yesterday’s fare had gone to a skilled nursing facility because he was having green bowel movements. Slow day on the meters.

Buffalo · East Side

Shots Fired Outside a 329 Austin Street Apartment; Callers Report Many Shots From Inside

At 8:41 PM BPD B-D dispatched available Delta cars to 329 Austin Street for shots fired. Follow-up in the next two minutes had callers hearing many shots from inside a first-floor apartment; a witness was reported staying in one of the houses on Austin around 320 or West. No firm suspect description came across the trunk on the initial arc.

Buffalo · Elmwood

Commercial Fire Alarm at the Elmwood AutoZone Wakes Buffalo Fire Just After Sunrise

Buffalo Fire pushed 136 to a preliminary signal for an activated commercial fire alarm at 2001 Elmwood, between Hertel and Hinman, at the Auto Zone, at 6:24 AM — the first alarm-panel call of the morning shift.

Buffalo · Abbott corridor

“Loud Bang and a Flash in the Park” Draws Buffalo Fire to the Discovery School

A Still Alarm ran at 1:37 AM on the report of “a loud bang and a flash in the park” near The Discovery School at 9-11 Abbott, with dispatchers routing companies through what sounded like a possible fireworks or transformer arc; no expansion followed on this frequency and the call closed quickly.

West Seneca · Clinton

Third-Party Overdose Call at 4663 Clinton — Unresponsive, Agonal Breathing

At 8:32 PM West Seneca Fire Dispatch pushed Union crews to 4663 Clinton for an unresponsive party, third-party call, suspected overdose. By 8:37 PM dispatchers had the update from scene: “Patient’s unresponsive, agonal breathing”, with AMR 264 medic level en route.