Williamsville / Amherst

Fire alarm at the funeral home turns out to be burnt food

Main-Transit rolls on a general alarm at Perna-Dengler-Roberts and clears with a whiff of the microwave

Just after 3 p.m. Monday, Amherst Fire Dispatch sent Main-Transit crews to a commercial fire alarm activation at 1671 Maple Road, the Perna-Dengler-Roberts Funeral Home, between St. Gregory Court and Youngs Road.

Five minutes later the dispatcher was already calling it clear: “Clear burnt food holding with 1 and 3 — Main-Transit 6, you can return”. Nothing further; Main-Transit 6 was released back to quarters.

Clarence

General alarm at Hillside Children’s Center — Clarence takes the run

Fire alarm activation at the Strickler Road campus off Greiner Road; Clarence Knight makes the arrival

At 7:09 p.m. Amherst Fire Dispatch toned out Clarence for a general fire alarm activation at 5300 Strickler Road, the Hillside Children’s Center, between Greiner Road[*] and Seamus Lane.

Clarence Knight put itself on location minutes later with “Clarence Knight on location, nothing”. Nothing further reported.

Amherst

Korean BBQ & Hot Pot sets off the panel

Commercial fire alarm activation at the Maple Road strip; North Bailey takes the assignment

Amherst Fire threw North Bailey a commercial fire alarm at 4224 Maple Road, the Korean BBQ & Hot Pot, between Hillcrest Drive and Sweet Home Road.

The panel reset without incident — no follow-up traffic. Somebody’s bulgogi may have oversmoked.

Amherst

‘Mom and boyfriend were arguing’ — 17-year-old calls it in from her room

Amherst PD takes the domestic at Avalon Meadows on the daughter’s tip; unknown if physical

A 17-year-old daughter, calling from her own room, dialed Amherst PD Monday afternoon to report her mother and the boyfriend arguing at 92 Avalon Meadows. The reporting officer summed it up plainly: “I’ll take the domestic call for 92 Avalon Meadows, getting called in by the 17-year-old daughter in her room, says that the mom and boyfriend were arguing, unknown if it was physical”

Two additional units checked in for cover; the initial call cleared without further traffic on the air.

Amherst

White Nissan flees Eggert Road domestic — last seen southbound at high speed

Ex-girlfriend calls Amherst PD after boyfriend ‘made some 10-23 statements’ and takes off toward the city; grandmother’s Cheektowaga address unknown

Just after 3 a.m. Amherst PD picked up a domestic welfare check at 811 Eggert Road. The complainant, an ex-girlfriend, told Number 3 the boyfriend “left in a vehicle going very fast, made some 10-23 statements” on his way out the door.

The suspect vehicle was called out as a black Nissan — then rechecked as possibly a white Jeep — running southbound Heger Avenue into the city at high road speed. Amherst asked Cheektowaga to keep an eye out: “He’s allegedly somewhere in their town at his grandmother’s residence, but the girlfriend has no idea where in Cheektowaga she resides”

The dispatcher’s response was one word: “Tough one”

BNIA — American Airlines ramp

‘The pancake printer wasn’t working’ — a Buffalo boarding delay, explained

American ramp agent walks Ops through the morning’s delay: printer, wheelchairs, and no bag room left

Just after 6 a.m. an American Airlines ramp agent at Buffalo Niagara narrated the morning’s boarding delay to Ops with the confidence of a person who has said this before. The lead cause: “Well, the pancake printer wasn’t working for one thing. It took us a minute to get that going”

The follow-on wasn’t any better: “We had wheelchairs, people that were going down super slow to get on the plane. We had to wait. There was no more bag room on the flight” Ops asked her to print the backpacks and see her when she came in.

Cheektowaga — taxi net

‘A semi trying to back up’ blocks George Urban at French

Buffalo Limo drivers spot a road obstruction on the taxi channel — the traffic report you didn’t know you needed

Late Monday afternoon a Buffalo Limo driver phoned into taxi dispatch with the sort of intel that never makes the TV traffic report: “Just received a call for a road obstruction, George Urban at French — we have a semi trying to back up”

Amherst — midnight foot chase

White t-shirt, moving west past McDonald’s: ‘I have him — he’s from Raha Coffee House’

Amherst PD tracks a foot subject on-ping across a corner lot at 12:38 a.m. and puts eyes on him at the café door

Just after midnight, Amherst PD walked a subject-on-foot call through the radio in something close to real time: “He’s moving westbound. He’s pinging in front of McDonald’s now. … He’s on foot. … I’m going to be wearing a white t-shirt”

Ninety seconds later the officer had him: “This is [unit], Radio. I have him. He’s from Raha Coffee House” Dispatch closed the loop with a 10-4 from the Raha Coffee. (“Raha” is the actual name; Whisper hears “Raja” on the audio.)

Buffalo — Tupper Street

‘A male doll in the middle of the roadway’ — BFD gets the strangest call of the night

Report of a “male doll,” black pants and a red shirt, lying in Tupper Street. Whether it was a mannequin or a very still person, dispatch played it straight

Buffalo Fire got the honest-to-goodness weirdest run of the shift just before 1 a.m., described by the dispatcher with no editorializing: “At Tupper Street, per report of a male doll — black pants and a red shirt — in the middle of the roadway”

The channel then moved on without confirming what the object turned out to be. This is why we listen.

FRS 15 — the prepper net

‘All doing this for prepping’ — CarbFest survey and a very earnest handheld net

FRS Channel 15 hosts a 20-minute members’ meeting: sign up for the CarbFest survey on Telegram, questions taken in-band

Someone with a serious voice and a serious antenna held court on FRS 15 Monday evening, working through a check-in and a Telegram-based survey for what he called “CarbFest.” The philosophical center of the whole exercise: “And we’re all doing this, or at least the bulk of us are doing this, for prepping”

It was a full-tilt earnest amateur-radio net — on unlicensed FRS handhelds, no less. If you’ve got 500 milliwatts and something to say about prepping, apparently there’s a channel for that.

Cambria

Two dirt bikes collide in a Cambria field — one rider not moving

Fire and EMS sent to a Comstock Road field between Upper Mountain and Saunders

Niagara County Fire Dispatch toned out Cambria at 7:20 p.m. for a collision in a field in front of 5261 Comstock Road, between Upper Mountain Road and Saunders. Two dirt bikes, one rider down.

The initial page was blunt: “Two dirt bikes collided, one male not moving” No further updates traveled on the county channel before the window closed.

Buffalo — Elmwood Village

Restaurant-basement alarm brings a full assignment to the Elmwood strip

Engine 37, Engine 2, Ladder 4 and V4 — alarm reportedly in the basement of the restaurant space

Buffalo Fire pushed a full box just before midnight for a fire alarm at the Elmwood Retail Group, with dispatch narrowing the location as the crews rolled: “At the Elmwood Retail Group, reportedly the alarm is in the restaurant basement — go for engine 37, engine 2, ladder 4, V4”