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Amherst · Eastbound 290 at the 990 split

Two-car crash with five patients shuts the left lane of the eastbound 290 between the Boulevard and the 990

At 08:00 Amherst Fire Dispatch toned out a motor-vehicle accident with injury eastbound on the 290 at the 990 split, with Amherst PD already on location. Within five minutes North Bailey 5-1 had the call assigned to it and Twin City was rolling; by 08:06 the on-scene chief had it as two vehicles, five patients for evaluation, and was holding all incoming units to a single ambulance.

Crews described the wreck as resting in the left lane on the median just before the 990, between the Boulevard and the split. Four of the five patients signed releases on the road; Twin City transported a single patient to Buffalo General. North Bailey, Newstead, and the Amherst chief all cleared back to quarters by 08:32, with Amherst PD remaining on scene to wait for the drivers to be picked up.

UpdatesFollow-ups on prior briefs

Williamsville · Princeton Court Apartments

RESOLVED

↻ Update of: This morning's AM brief — Loose German shepherd bites three children outside Princeton Court Apartments

Loose-shepherd bite case closes out: officer returns this morning to finish paperwork on three children mauled at Princeton Court

Following up on this morning's AM brief lead — the loose German shepherd that bit three children outside the Princeton Court Apartments on Princeton Avenue[*] just before 8 p.m. Monday — an Amherst PD officer radioed in at 07:55 that she was clearing a routine cat-struck call so she could “return for bite paperwork from last night” from the previous night.[1]

No new bites were dispatched on Princeton this window, and Amherst Fire did not return to the address. By the early afternoon a separate Amherst PD car was at 154 Princeton, Apartment 3 on a follow-up, and an APD recall a half-hour later flagged a gray SUV back at 135 Princeton, Apartment 3, with the officer noting that “the party broke into the building earlier” — neither appears tied to the dog-bite incident, but APD is clearly still working the building. The dog itself was last reported running around the corner at 19:53 last night and has not surfaced on the air today.

Around the NeighborhoodThe Northtowns, call by call

Akron · Akron Central School auditorium

RESOLVED

Six-year-old girl seizes in the auditorium at Akron Central School; Akron Ambulance and McEwen pulled in

Amherst Fire Dispatch toned out an EMS call at 08:23 to the Akron Central School District at 47 Bloomingdale Road[*] [heard: Bloomingdale Avenue], between Eckerson Avenue[*] [heard: Akerson Avenue] and Indianola Avenue[*] in Akron, for a six-year-old female seizing in the auditorium. Akron Ambulance and McEwen were paged; the dispatcher specifically told responding crews to “use door number two at the bus loop”, where the school had walked the patient.

By 09:05 the responding paramedics radioed they had a signed release from mom on scene, and the family was going on by private vehicle to a second location — the dispatcher closed it as a transport-by-mom at 09:05.

Williamsville · Harris Hill at Wehrle

RESOLVED

Auto-aid call pulls Bowmanville's ladder out for a smoke-detector activation at English Park Village

Amherst Fire Dispatch put out an automatic-aid request at 11:21 to 348 Harris Hill Road[*], the English Park Village apartments at the corner of Wehrle Drive[*] — a smoke-detector activation that pulled in Main-Transit's ladder under mutual aid with Bowmanville. Hotel 9-1 reported on location at 11:24 and held all units standing by; a Lane-Transit ladder request followed at 11:24:30.

The activation was reset and the call cleared shortly after 11:30 with no fire found — a textbook auto-aid response that ended quietly, but worth noting because of the address: 348 Harris Hill is at the seam between Williamsville and Clarence, a few hundred feet east of The Learning Garden daycare at 344 Harris Hill.

Williamsville · Williamsville Pediatrics on Earhart

RESOLVED

Forty-year-old seizes inside Williamsville Pediatrics; Twin City takes a nine-year-old relative to Children's, dad along

Amherst Fire Dispatch sent Main-Transit and an EMS unit at 11:36 to 95 Earhart Drive[*] at Williamsville Pediatrics for a forty-year-old male in a seizure. Twin City 241 was responding from Maple and Transit; by 12:03 the responding crew had handed off a 40-year-old male patient to the fire department and the dispatcher was rebalancing units.

In the end the 40-year-old signed a release at the office, but Twin City 242 transported a nine-year-old relative to Children's Hospital — with dad on board — and Main-Transit returned to service. The dispatcher confirmed the 40-year-old patient's release at 12:04.

Eggertsville · Windermere Elementary

Mother takes her unattended kids out of Windermere Elementary's office without car seats and drives off; Amherst PD opens a welfare check

Just after 13:17 an Amherst PD officer broadcast a complaint from Windermere Elementary at 291 Windermere — “two children left unattended on a playground by the parent” — and the parents had then arrived, “She put the kids in the vehicle without car seats”, and driven off in front of school staff. The officer described the parent as very uncooperative and noted “We have extensive history with her”.

APD identified the home address as 423 Allenhurst Road[*], Apartment B and opened a follow-up welfare check on the kids at the apartment by 13:51; by 14:31 a separate unit was working on identifying a related child and was stopping by his house to send a screen. The call had not been closed out on the air before the window cut.


Overheard: The WiresCops, cabbies, custodians, dispatchers — off-script

Amherst · Paradise Lane

Paradise lost: cat versus car, and the car wins on Paradise Lane

At 07:32 the morning Amherst PD officer keyed up to report a piece of housekeeping a half block from the previous call: “For the cat that was struck by a car, 160 Paradise, I do believe it is deceased in the roadway”. Twenty minutes later the same officer asked dispatch for “log in for pickup in front of 259 Paradise” — a brief, bureaucratically magnificent confirmation that the cat had indeed not gotten up.

Amherst · 127 Marines, Williamsville

RESOLVED

The case of the missing .38 Special: stolen handgun reported "located inside the house" turns out to be a BB gun

An Amherst PD unit radioed in at 09:32 from 127 Marines, where the homeowner had reported a firearm stolen a couple of months back and now wanted it brought in “for safekeeping”. The officer relayed the serial number and the make over the air at 10:12 — Henry Boy 14906, .38 Special.

Twenty minutes later the same officer keyed back up with the correction: “the firearm was a BB gun, not the gun that was reported missing”. He cleared with the radio chief and went to drop it off at HQ anyway, just to close it out clean.

Amherst · Bassett Park men's room

Flag-down near Target: man walks out of the Bassett Park bathroom and tells police "nobody was in there, but there was blood everywhere"

At 13:26 an Amherst PD unit told radio he had “just got a flag down near Target”. The flagger had walked into the men's room at Bassett Park, found no one, and walked out reporting “nobody was in there, but there was blood everywhere”. APD broke off a separate call at Covington Gardens and sent two cars over to check.

Amherst · The shrubs behind 95-something

RESOLVED

Rake-wielding "prowler" hiding in the back hedges turns out to be the neighbor's landscaper

A woman called APD at 13:07 to say she had yelled out a window, heard the door shut, and gone outside to find “a male stand outside, appears to be working in the area, thin build, wearing a t-shirt and shorts, was behind her shrubs carrying a rake”. The officer narrated her panic in real time over the radio — the man was last seen “walking northbound, promenade through the backyards”.

Six minutes later the assist car radioed back the resolution: “There's a kiddo doing landscaping, two houses down from 95”. The neighbor at 66 had been raking at 58, which backs up to the complainant's yard. Nothing further, the officer told dispatch — just a kid with a rake.

Amherst · Skinnersville crossing

High-school cyclist threatens to punch a crossing guard in the face, then pedals serenely off

An Amherst PD officer at 13:44 read in a complaint from a crossing guard on Skinnersville: “they were crossing a high school student who then threatened to punch them in the face”, then “continued on his bicycle”. The crossing guard wanted to speak to someone.


Regional BlotterBeyond the Northtowns — WNY at large

Southtowns · Blasdell Pizza on Southwestern

Two-car crash with a 66-year-old back injury in front of Blasdell Pizza on Southwestern, then a chest-pain call next door at urgent care

Town of Hamburg FD Dispatch put Scranton crews on the road at 13:31 for a two-car accident in front of Blasdell Pizza, 4837 Southwestern, with a 66-year-old male reporting a back injury. While Scranton was still en route the dispatcher tripled them up: a second call at 13:31:50 for a 74-year-old female with cardiac history and chest pain at the “WellNow Urgent Care” next door, 4909 Southwestern, room 7 — paramedic response, town ambulance, mutual aid.

North Tonawanda · Bryant Street

North Tonawanda homeowner smells something burning in the garage; NTFD rolls Engine 4 alone for an odor investigation

Niagara County Fire Control toned North Tonawanda Fire at 10:37 to 343 Bryant Street for an odor investigation in the garage, with the homeowner reporting something burning. Engine 4 was sent in alone for a car-temperature read on TAC 1; Engine 6 and Truck 1 were stood down within seconds.

Sanborn · Sanborn Fire Hall on Buffalo Street

Sanborn ambulance crew meets a tan Ford Expedition in the firehall lot for a 60-year-old vomiting blood

Niagara County Fire Control routed an ALS request at 13:22 to the Sanborn Fire Hall, 5811 Buffalo Street, with a wrinkle: the patient was waiting in a tan Ford Expedition in the parking lot — a 60-year-old male coughing up blood with a history of alcoholism. Unit 2 was paged on FT-EMS 1322; the dispatcher repeated the description twice for clarity, including the vehicle make and the patient profile.

Other Calls of Note

[09:14]Clarence Center · Keller Road Clarence Center EMS responded to 10055 Keller Road[*] for an 82-year-old male, dizzy and hypotensive with cardiac dysrhythmia following a recent cardiac procedure.
[12:31]Williamsville · 716 Health, North Maplemere Getzville crews ran an EMS to 111 North Maplemere Road[*] at 716 Health for a 63-year-old male with shortness of breath and severe abdominal pain; entrance C, Charlie.
[09:01]Eggertsville · LeBrun Road Eggertsville Fire ran the standard zone-1 fire-alarm activation at 180 LeBrun Road (People Incorporated), between Mona Drive and LeBrun Circle; nothing showing on arrival, building not evacuated.
[11:03]Amherst · Millersport Highway Manual-pull fire alarm at 3870 Millersport Highway, Segal Landscape, between Hopkins Road and the 990 — no fire, alarm reset.
[13:24]Amherst · United Church of Christ on Maple Getzville Fire toned for a Zone 1 fire-alarm activation at 1300 Maple Road, the United Church of Christ at Hopkins Road.
[14:41]Williamsville · Jewish Heritage Day School Williamsville crews drew a Zone 19 emergency-exit fire-alarm activation at 411 John K. Pettibone Parkway, the Jewish Heritage Day School between Gordon R. Yeager Drive and Bryant Woods South.
[12:46]Tonawanda · Wadsworth Avenue Tonawanda FD responded to 229 Wadsworth for a 68-year-old female reported disoriented with high blood pressure.
[14:50]Hamburg · Elderwood, Maylou Drive Scranton EMS responded to Elderwood at Hamburg, 5775 Maylou Drive, room 315, for a 92-year-old male with what the dispatcher called possible elder abuse.
[12:29]Lockport · Lockport Street Niagara County MS-23 was sent to 1643 Lockport Street, lot 18, between Park Lane and West Lake Road, for a female with chest pain, disoriented, recently diagnosed with shingles; mutual-aid ambulance requested from Cheer Hall.
[14:36]Buffalo · 687 Norfolk between Northumberland and Kensington BFD Ch.1 toned EMS I-40 to 687 Norfolk for a cardiac arrest; engines and a chief were assigned.
[14:43]Buffalo · 490 Broadway at Lucy and Mortimer BFD ran a Level 2 response to 490 Broadway at Lucy and Mortimer — Engine 21, Ladder 2, and a battalion chief assigned.

Editor’s Note

A full but routine Tuesday so far. The morning headlined a five-patient, two-car crash on the eastbound 290 at the 990 split, and a six-year-old in the auditorium at Akron Central School seizing in front of school staff. The afternoon settled into fire-alarm activations along Maple, Transit, and Hopkins, plus a small pile of welfare-check follow-ups; an Eggertsville officer also returned this morning to close out the dog-bite paperwork from last night's three-child mauling on Princeton Avenue. The watchlist stayed quiet — no owned-property hits in the window.

Daily Gem

I do believe it is deceased in the roadway”

— Amherst PD, 160 Paradise, 07:32

By the Numbers

Segments
1,227
Active systems
26
Busiest hour
08:00–09:00 (290 / 990 MVA and school seizure)
Regional Breaking
0
Updates
1
By Agency (top 5)
BucketSegs
Fire / EMS405
Police280
Hotel / shuttle / taxi195
Schools119
Airport / aviation80
By Area (top 5)
BucketSegs
Williamsville & Amherst474
Buffalo140
Other Erie County60
Niagara County52
Cheektowaga / Lancaster / Depew30

Agency and area buckets are estimated from channel-level mapping; finer-grained review may reattribute individual segments.

[*] = a name the scanner audio left uncertain and could not be confirmed against an official source; treat as unverified. Routine street-name fixes against official municipal lists are applied silently.
The WNY Listening Post · Tuesday, June 16, 2026 · P.M. Edition · Vol. I, No. 38
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