Ellicott Creek · Head-On MVA

Head-On Crash at the Boulevard and Tonawanda Creek

A head-on motor vehicle accident on Niagara Falls Boulevard at Tonawanda Creek Road drew Ellicott Creek Fire, Twin City Ambulance, and Amherst PD at about 4:54 p.m. Sunday. Amherst PD was already committed to a P.O. accident at the same intersection when the second collision was called in, and traffic backed up quickly.

One vehicle involved was a Massachusetts-plated rental with an airbag deployment and, per dispatch, “Commuter Hook, Airbag Deployment, Taunton Damage.” Ambulance 236 handled the transport to the 290-and-Boulevard area for evaluation; there was no request for extrication. The scene cleared quickly enough that units were back in service by 5:05 p.m.

Getzville → Tonawanda · Auto Theft

White Volkswagen Taken From Getzville Driveway, Traced by Plate Cameras

A white Volkswagen was stolen from 280 Getzville Road sometime in the two hours before 7:13 p.m. Sunday, taken with the keys, per the complainant. Amherst dispatched an Adam-Yankee-John unit and put the plate out to Erie and Niagara county reads.

License-plate reader hits came back within minutes: the same tag pinged at Military Road in Mayville at 6:50 p.m., and westbound Main Street at Catamore at 6:05 p.m. A separate blue Ford Explorer, also reported stolen, hit the same fixed camera at the same time — an appearance PD flagged as “probably them,” appearing to link the two vehicles.

By 7:50 p.m. dispatch had another related complaint queued up: a larceny-from-vehicle at 159 Sherry Laura Lane, last seen with a white Volkswagen headed southbound toward Tonawanda Creek. Amherst was still working the case when the log closed for the AM window.

Newstead · Arrowhead Lodge

‘Over-Served’ Sunday Night at the Arrowhead Lodge

Newstead was toned out at 9:00 p.m. Sunday for what dispatch called “a 25-year-old female, over-served, semi-conscious and vomiting” in the ladies' room at the Arrowhead Lodge, 12292 Clarence Center Road, between Dye Road and the West Shore Trail. Amherst Fire ran the tones; Newstead handled the response.

The address is a familiar one on the wire — the third dispatch to Arrowhead Lodge since May, following an earlier MVA in the parking lot on July 21. Sunday's call resolved on scene without a transport tone within the window.

Amherst · Sweet Home / Maple

Barefoot in the Middle of the Night at Sweet Home & Maple

At 1:43 a.m., Amherst PD took an assist-other-police call from University at Buffalo Police at the corner of Sweet Home Road[*] and Maple Road[*]. UB was already out with a subject: “a female party was running down the road, barefoot and hopped into a vehicle, and UB has the vehicle pulled over now”. UB stopped the vehicle; Amherst rolled to back them up. No injuries or arrests came out on the air before the log cut off.

FRS 16 · The Ghost in the Machine

‘For More Information Visit www.fema.gov’

The scanner audio was so quiet Whisper started writing YouTube captions to fill the silence

The transcription model that turns our scanner audio into text was trained on YouTube captions, and the model's tell — when there is no speech to transcribe — is to hallucinate a line from something in its training set. Fifty-one times in this 16-hour window, on channels ranging from Amherst PD to BuffaloLimo, the transcript reads “For more information visit www.fema.gov” or “Subtitles by the Amara.org community” or “Thanks for watching!”

The concentrated stretch was FRS 16 — hyper-local low-power radio typically used by neighbors and small work crews — which produced twenty-plus consecutive segments of near-silence from about 8:51 p.m. to 9:19 p.m., interrupted only by fragments (“Is that horrendous or nothing? You gonna make your teeth bigger or nothing like that, Dave?”) and closing with “Thank you for watching.” “460 pounds of fish off of Cape Cod”. No.

Amherst · Walmart

Man Leaning On A Gray Porsche At The Walmart

The dispatch, at 3290 Sheridan Drive: “a male leaning against a gray Porsche. It's a black male, white tank top and white checkered shorts. Closer to the home and entrance aisle, closer to Sheridan Drive, leaning up against a car”. By the time an Amherst officer got to the aisle, the officer reported “not able to locate anything,” and cleared. No follow-up.

Amherst · Allenhurst

Kid Smoked Some Weed And ‘Feels Funny’

From dispatch to Adam at 7:58 p.m.: “505 Allenhurst, hey Adam, you got a kid that smoked some weed and now he feels funny and they're concerned that there's a small child in the house, AFC's requesting this”. The report closed with an Adult Protective Services request; the address is 505 Allenhurst Road.

Amherst · Landings & Clearwater

Youth On A Dirt Bike, Ripping Landings At A High Rate Of Speed

Late-summer dispatch classic. Amherst PD, 10:28 p.m.: “can you head to the area of Landings and Clearwater for youth on a dirt bike driving up and down Landings at a high rate of speed”. No arrest tone came over the air.

Amherst · Wednesday-Night Trafford Court

‘JP, Always A Joy Working With You, Bud’

The unsung labor of moving people between the airport and their hotels late at night, captured in one line from a BNIA shuttle driver at 11:05 p.m. to another driver signing off: “JP, always a joy working with you, bud”. The whole channel this window was that: transactional pickups, small kindnesses, the occasional “She said they didn't realize it was gone because they just bought it when they were…” Someone's luggage, somewhere. It resolved off-mic.

Clarence · Rock Oak (Rockoak Estates)

Getzville Fire and Twin City Called To Rockoak For 70-Year-Old, Difficulty Breathing

Amherst Fire Dispatch toned out at 10:43 p.m. for an EMS call at 31 Xavier Road in the Rockoak Estates, between Main Street and Douglas Avenue. Dispatch relayed a 70-year-old female with difficulty breathing; Clarence 9-1 and Twin City 2-4-0 (from Maple Intrinsic) responded. The property is Rock Oak, the manufactured-housing community off Main Street.

Niagara County · Lewiston Road

Second Motorcycle-Involved MVA On Lewiston Road At Upper Mountain Merge

Niagara County FD went to a second dispatch at 6:35 p.m. for an additional motorcycle motor-vehicle accident on Lewiston Road, southbound at the Upper Mountain Road merge. It ran cleanly — no reports of injuries or extrication on the air — and units cleared quickly.