Buffalo · Niagara Street · Stabbing

A Street Fight on Niagara Ends in a Stabbing, a Blood Trail, and an Arrest

Three people were reported fighting near Niagara and Porter before a man was stabbed; officers followed a blood trail and detained a suspect for a showup at ECMC.

Yesterday at about 5:14 PM, Buffalo police reported three people fighting at Niagara and Porter, with a man in a blue shirt and gray shorts described as stabbed and a suspect heading north on Niagara. Within minutes the scene consolidated in the 570–580 block of Niagara Street, between Pennsylvania and Jersey, where a person was reported stabbed and an assailant in a red shirt was detained; evidence was located at the scene.

Officers worked the two addresses on either side of the block, 581 and 583 Niagara, where a blood trail was located. The traffic then noted a suspect apprehended and slated for transport to a showup at ECMC, closing out a fast-moving call that had started as a curbside brawl. The condition of the man who was stabbed was not carried further on the air.

Amherst · Kinderhook · Missing Child

A 10-Year-Old Missing 45 Minutes Off Kinderhook Sets Off a Neighborhood Search

Amherst officers moved quickly after a father reported his daughter gone; the traffic suggested she had taken a scooter to a friend's house.

Yesterday at about 7:07 PM, Amherst police opened a search after a report from 73 Kinderhook that a 10-year-old girl had been missing for roughly 45 minutes, last seen about three quarters of an hour earlier. Units began working the neighborhood as the call went out.

The most likely explanation crossed the air minutes later, when a unit relayed that the girl had apparently taken a “scooter to go to a friend's house”. The traffic did not carry a confirmed reunion before the thread moved off the channel, but the tone shifted from alarm toward a routine check as officers followed the scooter lead.

Cattaraugus County · Olean · Restaurant Injury

A Falling Stack of Cables Opens a Severe Leg Wound at an Olean Restaurant

A 33-year-old woman was badly cut when cables fell on her calf at Zets Cuisine on South Main Street; Mercy Flight was staged as an ALS trauma crew controlled the bleeding.

Yesterday at 5:49 PM, Cattaraugus County fire dispatch toned out an ALS trauma call to 12 South Main Street in Olean, at Zets Cuisine, where a 33-year-old woman had a stack of cables fall on her left calf. Dispatch relayed that the bleeding was severe and that responders were trying to control it on scene, repeating the address twice as crews rolled.

Mercy Flight was placed on standby as the trauma response built, with dispatch confirming the helicopter was holding while ground crews worked. Within a few minutes the picture eased: a chief cleared Mercy Flight from standby, and by 5:59 PM the scene was cleared with the ambulance transporting the patient to Olean General Hospital, the bleeding reported under control en route.

Wyoming County · Perry · Child Medical Emergency

A 6-Year-Old Found Unconscious in a Perry Apartment Draws a Multi-Unit Response

Medics from Warsaw and beyond converged on 50 Oak Street after a boy was reported unconscious, with a possible diabetic cause noted on the air.

Yesterday at about 3:53 PM, Wyoming County fire dispatch put out an urgent call to 50 Oak Street, Apartment David 2, at the Humphrey Hollows complex, for a 6-year-old boy reported unconscious. Medic 80 was toned first, the dispatcher repeating the address and telling the crew to take a breath as the details came together.

A second medic marked in to back up the first, and by shortly before 4:00 PM multiple units were on location. Dispatch noted the possibility of a “possible diabetic problem” behind the boy's condition. As the Oak Street call wound down, the same dispatcher was already toning Perry Ambulance to a second run — a 73-year-old woman with trouble breathing at Champion Place Apartments on Tempest Street — and shifted a freed-up medic straight over to it.

Cheektowaga · Lake Creek Drive · Courier Scam

A Cheektowaga Man Hands $19,000 to a 'Courier' Bound for the Bank — and It's Gone

The complainant told police a courier picked up his cash on a promise to return it to Bank of America; he managed to get a plate that came back to Sloan.

Yesterday at about 7:22 PM, a Cheektowaga police dispatcher relayed a larceny complaint from 6 Lake Creek Drive, Apartment 3, where a man reported he had been scammed out of $19,000. Per the dispatch, a courier had picked up his money in person, telling him he was going to return it to the Bank of America.

The complainant did have one lead to hand police: he had captured a license plate on the vehicle, read on the air as Michael-Charlie-Nora 3902, which dispatch noted came back to Sloan. The account matches a familiar bank-impersonation scam, in which a caller posing as a bank or fraud investigator persuades a victim to surrender cash to a supposed courier for safekeeping.

Wyoming County · Sheldon · Vehicle Into Pond

A Vehicle Comes to Rest on the Edge of a Sheldon Pond, and Crews Work to Pull the Occupants Out

A car went off Upper Hickory Road and had to be stabilized to keep it from sliding into the water while occupants were extricated.

Yesterday at about 8:09 PM, Wyoming County fire units were dispatched to Upper Hickory Road in Sheldon for a single vehicle off the roadway, with a possible head injury initially noted and mutual aid requested. The car had left the road near a pond on private property.

Crews on scene described a precarious position: the vehicle was “sitting on the edge of going into the pond”, and they had to stabilize it before they could work the occupants free. Arriving units were directed down a driveway to the pond to find the crew already at work below, holding the car steady on the water's edge as the extrication proceeded.

Southtowns · Near the Fairgrounds

Blue Shirt, Khakis, and a Death Wish: Motorcyclist Nearly Clips an Ambulance

A rider weaving in and out of the lane near the fairgrounds came close enough to draw a report from the crew he almost hit.

Yesterday at 3:41 PM, a Hamburg Fire crew on South Park called in a motorcycle “coming in and out of the lane, almost hit our ambulance” near the fairgrounds — and this time the near-miss came at their own rig. Dispatch got a wardrobe to match the driving: a rider in a blue shirt and some khakis, cutting in and out of the lane. Being called in by the very ambulance you nearly sideswiped is one way to make an impression.

Cheektowaga · Walden Town Park

Six Kids, One Closed Kiddie Pool, and a Fence That Wasn't Going to Stop Them

Summer may be over on paper. Nobody told the swimmers at Walden Town Park.

Yesterday at 7:32 PM, a dispatcher passed along a scene of pure end-of-season defiance: Walden Town Park, six kids in the kiddie pool, “Apparently it's shut down for the year and they're hopping over”. The pool was shut down for the year; the kids had voted with their feet and gone over the top. A late-summer evening, a locked gate, and a quorum of children who declined to accept that swim season had a closing date.

Cheektowaga · Buffalo Airport

School Bus 602 Meets a Hotel Overhang, and the Overhang Wins

A full-size bus clipped the rear overhang of a hotel near the airport in the least glamorous fender-bender of the day.

Yesterday at 5:12 PM, Cheektowaga police logged school bus 602 striking an overhang at the rear of a hotel near Buffalo Airport off Genesee Street. No word of injuries — just a bus, a low roofline, and the eternal miscalculation that turns a routing shortcut into an incident report. If there is a driver in Western New York who has not eyed a clearance bar with suspicion, they were not on Genesee Street yesterday afternoon.

Thruway · Exit 56

Two Boys, One Toll Gantry, and a Statewide Audience They Didn't Know They Had

A Thruway patrol reported a pair climbing the overhead toll gantry at Exit 56 — one in a backpack, one in a white t-shirt.

Yesterday at about 5:35 PM, a Thruway patrol reported “two boys climbing over them right before Exit 56” eastbound just before Exit 56, one wearing a backpack and the other a white t-shirt. The sighting bounced across the channel three times in short order, each relay a little more urgent about getting a car to the two teenagers perched over the traffic. Whatever the appeal of a steel truss above a toll plaza, the audience it drew was a lot bigger than the climbers bargained for.

Cattaraugus County · Gowanda

Keys Locked in the Car, and the One Tool for the Job Nowhere to Be Found

A deputy in Gowanda arrived to help a driver locked out of her car — only to discover he had no lockout kit.

Yesterday at about 6:27 PM, a Cattaraugus deputy pulled up to a lockout at Academy Place in Gowanda: a woman had locked her keys in her car. The rescue hit an immediate snag, delivered with admirable candor over the air — “She locked her keys in her car. I do not have a lockout kit”. Dispatch put in a call for the tool, and everyone settled in to wait for someone with the means to open a door.

Amherst · Caledon

Grown Adult Would Like to Fight a 12-Year-Old on Caledon, Police Advised

A harassment complaint in Amherst turned on an adult reportedly itching to square off with a middle-schooler.

Yesterday at about 6:41 PM, Amherst police fielded a harassment complaint on Caledon in which, per dispatch, an adult wanted to fight a 12-year-old child. There is a whole category of neighborhood dispute the scanner produces reliably, and this is its purest form: a grown-up who has decided the appropriate opponent is a seventh-grader. Officers were sent to referee.

Buffalo · Shots Fired

More Than 10 Shots Reported Fired Near Fillmore and Jewett

Buffalo Police radio put out a shots-fired call yesterday at 8:47 PM for Fillmore Avenue and Jewett Parkway, after a caller told dispatch he'd heard “more than 10 shots heard one minute ago” coming from near his building, possibly heading toward Wakefield Avenue.

Units 410 and 411 were sent into the area a couple of minutes later, and dispatch also asked the camera room to pull video toward Holden in case the noise turned out to be fireworks rather than gunfire.

Buffalo · Pedestrian Struck

Pedestrian Struck By Car at Main and Wehrle

Buffalo Police radio put out an injury accident yesterday at 3:27 PM at Main Street and Raleigh[*], a car-versus-pedestrian crash that drew an immediate ambulance response.

Within a couple of minutes, an officer on scene relayed that the woman who was struck was “she's conscious, she's breathing, she's talking”, as ambulance crews continued in toward the intersection.

Niagara County · CO Alarm

Carbon Monoxide Alarm Leaves Two Lightheaded on Clinton Street

Early this morning at 12:07 AM, Niagara County Fire dispatched an ALS-priority response to a carbon monoxide detector activation on Clinton Street, between Mill Street and Chapel Street, after two residents reported feeling lightheaded and experiencing headaches.

Olean · Domestic Dispute

9-Year-Old Left Alone Inside as Domestic Dispute Unfolds on North Clinton Street

Yesterday at 5:03 PM, Olean Police were sent to 116 North Clinton Street, Apartment D, after a 12-year-old called dispatch to report her mother and father were in the middle of a domestic dispute; the girl said she and a second child were away at a nearby store while a nine-year-old sibling remained alone inside the apartment.

An officer radioed back minutes later that he was “just now about to make contact” at the apartment door.

Jamestown · Possible Burglary

Jamestown Police Check Sturgis Street Home for Possible Break-In

Yesterday at 4:42 PM, Jamestown Police dispatched a unit to 20 Sturgis Street for a possible burglary in progress.

Dispatch said the rear door appeared to have been forced open and it was not immediately clear whether anyone remained inside; the call was cleared minutes later with no further details broadcast.