Lancaster · Missing & Endangered

Lancaster Police Search for an Endangered Man Missing Two Days, Last Seen With a Knife

A man identified on dispatch as Ethan Soddy has been gone two days with reported suicidal ideation, his phone and glasses left behind at the Winfield Street home.

Through the morning, Lancaster police worked a missing-and-endangered case out of a lower unit at 9 Winfield Street, involving a man identified on dispatch as Ethan Soddy who had been absent for two days. The traffic described suicidal ideation and a report that he had been seen with a knife.

According to the radio, the man left his cell phone and glasses behind — the kind of detail that turns a routine missing report into an urgent one — and units spent the morning trying to establish where he had gone. The search remained open at the window's end, with no located-and-safe confirmation on the air.

Jamestown · River Walk · Stabbing

A Man Stabbed on the Jamestown River Walk Walks Himself Home, and Police Have a Name

Officers were sent to a West 7th Street home for a man who said he was stabbed down on the river walk, with the suspect quickly identified on the air.

At about 2:43 PM, Jamestown dispatch asked units to respond to 17 West 7th Street for a male who had allegedly been stabbed at the river walk and then walked himself home. "We got a male that was allegedly stabbed at the river walk and he walked home to 7th Street," the dispatcher told the responding unit.

As more information came in, dispatch relayed that they believed the suspect was a man identified on the radio as Delbert Clark, last placed somewhere down on the river walk. The call came in the same afternoon Jamestown-area units were already sweeping the Third Street and Fairmount corridor for an armed male in a burnt-orange hoodie — a busy stretch for city officers.

Amherst · Woodside Avenue · Structure Fire

A Condemned Woodside House Catches Fire in the Back, Drawing Mutual Aid to Amherst

Crews found fire at the rear of a condemned building and called for mutual aid as multiple companies converged.

Around 2:33 PM, Amherst Fire and mutual-aid companies were dispatched to a structure fire at 4035 Woodside, with crews reporting fire at the back of the house. The building was described on the air as condemned.

Multiple companies were pulled in as the response built out, the standard picture for a working fire in an unoccupied, deteriorated structure where the concern is knocking it down before it spreads rather than searching for anyone inside. The traffic reflected a coordinated multi-company effort through the top of the hour.

Williamsville · Main & Buell · Injury Crash

A Two-Car Crash at Main and Buell Traps One Driver and Leaves Another With a Head Injury

Amherst Fire worked a two-vehicle wreck at the intersection where one driver was pinned and a second patient reported a head injury.

Just before noon, at about 11:59 AM, Amherst Fire was dispatched to a two-car motor-vehicle accident at Main Street and Buell Street, with one driver reported trapped in a vehicle and a second patient complaining of a head injury.

An entrapment call raises the response — extrication tools and additional hands — until the trapped driver is freed and both patients can be assessed. The traffic reflected crews working the two occupants at the intersection.

Amherst · UB South Campus · Bicycle Injury

A UB Student and an 18-Month-Old Are Thrown From a Bicycle Near the South Campus

A 20-year-old woman and a toddler fell from a bicycle at St. Rita's Lane, drawing both a trauma and an asthma response.

At about 12:25 PM, Amherst and Buffalo fire units were dispatched to 201 St. Rita's Lane in the Southlake Village area near the University at Buffalo, for a 20-year-old woman and an 18-month-old who had fallen from a bicycle, with a reported traumatic injury and an asthma response.

A university campus unit was on location a few minutes later to handle the UB-area piece of the response. A fall involving a small child and an adult on the same bicycle brings a cautious, layered EMS approach, and the traffic reflected crews working both patients on scene.

BNIA · Shuttle Ops

The Mystery of the Two-Foot Plank

At 7:25 AM, an airport shuttle driver keyed up with a line begging for a sequel: "Can't be thinking." A beat later came the payoff — "I got a two-foot plank." No context arrived. No follow-up ever explained what the plank was for, where it came from, or why a shuttle driver was in possession of exactly two feet of it before 7:30 AM in the morning. The wire, as ever, offered a riddle and moved on.

BNIA · Shuttle Ops

It Didn't Work Out At All, So He Just Made a Right Turn

At 8:51 AM, two shuttle drivers held a small, weary summit over a traffic signal that refuses to cooperate. "Earlier this morning, it didn't work out at all," one reported. "I sat there and tried it a few times, I just had to make a right turn." It came around near 6 o'clock, briefly, then went sour again once things got busy — a minute and 35 seconds when the cycle is supposed to change at a minute and 45. The full physics of the airport approach light, delivered with the patience of men who have measured it to the second.

Amherst · Oak Senior Living

Down to His Last Yogurt

At 8:06 AM, dispatch relayed the case of a man at a Sheridan Drive senior apartment who has called for a hospital ride more than once. Today, per the radio, he told 911 he hadn't showered in months and "thinks and stinks," that he was on his last thing — a yogurt — with no other food in the house, and that he wanted to go to the hospital, with no clear medical reason offered. It is the kind of call that is funny and sad in the same breath: a man out of groceries, out of options, radioing for help the only way he knew how.

Cheektowaga · House Rules

The Boy Who Just Didn't Like the Rules of the House

At 8:03 AM, a Cheektowaga officer cleared a family call with a diagnosis every parent will recognize: "Alright son, just didn't like the rules of the house this morning, got a little upset. Everything is in order here, he's been advised." The great domestic dispute, resolved not with charges but with advice, and one dispatch card quietly noting that the door is actually around the back on Lackawanna Street.

Franklinville · Peavey Road

An Amish Buggy Tips Over, and the Search Is for the Horses

At 12:11 PM, the Cattaraugus County Sheriff's office fielded a call from Peavey Road in Franklinville: an Amish buggy had tipped over. No word on injuries to the driver — the pressing problem was that the animals had bolted, missing, with a search underway to round them up. A rural-Southtowns scene the wires deliver a few times a season and never gets less arresting.

Amherst · Crystal Springs Lane

Evasive Caller Cites Family ‘Abuse’ in Crystal Springs Lane Domestic Call

At 8:50 AM, Amherst Police Dispatch sent Patrol 6 to a possible domestic at 129 Crystal Springs Lane after a male caller reached 911, gave the address, and the line picked up what sounded like shouting or a disturbance before he stopped answering questions and the call was lost.

A callback reached a man dispatch described as “extremely evasive and not very forthcoming”; he got as far as confirming a family issue involving physical abuse before hanging up when asked whether anyone was hurt, leaving it unclear who was involved or how badly.

Grand Island · Grinnell Boulevard

SUV Strikes Grand Island Medical Building, Driver Stopped Nearby After Fleeing Scene

Just after 9:11 AM, Grand Island Fire Dispatch sent a hot EMS response to the Clark Family Medicine building at 1801 Grinnell Boulevard after a report that a vehicle had struck it, and Twin City's Medic 248 was also dispatched to the scene.

Minutes later, a fire dispatcher radioed that “the car may have left the scene and the deputy has them stopped right around the medical building somewhere on the boulevard”, and a responding unit said it would continue to the building anyway to confirm no patients remained there.

Buffalo · Empire Street

Man Threatening Suicide With Knife on Empire Street Porch Talked Down, No Weapon Found

Just after 7:23 AM, Buffalo Police put out a call for “male on the back porch with a knife threatening suicide” at 34 Empire Street, involving a man identified on dispatch as Isaiah Johnson; the report reached officers through Crisis Services, and the department's ADI team was notified while officers staged near the address.

About ten minutes later, an officer on scene radioed that “there's going to be no knife over here”, that “two people came out from this residence and they said they don't need any assistance”, and asked dispatch to cancel ADI and wave off other cars still headed to the block.

Buffalo · Riverside

Full Box Alarm Sends More Than a Dozen Buffalo Fire Units to Reported Riverside Structure Fire

At 8:05 AM, Buffalo Fire dispatched a full box alarm — engines 26, 36 and 19, ladders 4, 7 and 13, Rescue 1, medic units F20, F40 and F9, and battalion chiefs 41 and 47 — to 290 Riverside on a report of a structure fire, with units told to switch their radios to channel 2 on arrival; the outcome of the response was not confirmed in the traffic reviewed for this window.

Olean · Edwards Court

Olean Police Check Welfare of Man Who Threatened to Jump, Mentioned Hatchet

At 8:03 AM, Olean Police Dispatch sent officers to check the welfare of a male party at 8 Edwards Court after he called 911 saying he was “going to jump over Niagara Falls”, with mention of a hatchet or machete.

An officer was sent out to the address minutes later; the outcome of the check was not confirmed in the traffic reviewed for this window.

Collins · Woodside Road

Structure Fire Draws Multiple Units to Collins Home on Woodside Road

At 2:36 PM, Cattaraugus Fire dispatch sent an EMS unit and additional apparatus to a structure fire at 4035 Woodside Road, in the Town of Collins between Ottenbecker and Sisson Highway.

Engine crews 818 and 819 were routed in behind the initial units within the minute; further details on the fire's extent were not confirmed in the traffic reviewed for this window.