Eight-year-old caught a flying chunk of masonry as Amherst kids pelted bricks at the sky — and one came down where it shouldn't have.
An anonymous welfare check at 3701 West Villas spiraled into a head-laceration call after officers found a child “had pretty good cut on his head,” according to an Amherst PD officer who arrived on scene.[1] Updates over the radio cleared the worry: “This appears to have been incidental. All the kids were playing with rocks and bricks and throwing them in the air. This one just happened to land on the child’s head.”[2] Mom signed the patient release on scene; no transport.[3]
An anonymous caller reported that a 14-year-old at 208 Deer Run had written a goodbye note, prompting Amherst officers to head over for a welfare check.[4] Radio chatter trailed off without a clear disposition; no further escalation was broadcast. If you or someone you know needs help, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is available 24/7.
Amherst Fire was sent to a small mulch fire at 5190 Sheridan Drive — “a small amount of mulch,” per the dispatcher, with no damage to the building.[5][6] Williamsville 9 responded; companies cleared in service by 7:23 p.m.[7]
Amherst Fire chalked up an early-evening “avoidable” alarm activation to a workshop running 3D printers overnight. “Armour set off due to 3D printers being ran overnight,” dispatch noted before clearing the call.[8]
An Amherst PD unit logged a complaint against a white Chevy Blazer, plate King-Union-Williams 1597, “threw a bunch of garbage in the parking lot and had their child urinate also.”[9] No follow-up broadcast.
Officers tracked an “older white male, short build, wearing an orange shirt, pajama pants, and a hospital wristband” sitting in a Subaru — the operator “appeared to leave at one point and struck a curb and has been driving in circles now,” per the responding officer.[10][11] A possible plate, Michael-David-Tom 2065, came back to Basil Mitsubishi.[12] Last seen heading toward the mall parking lot.[13]
An ex-boyfriend phoning in from his job in Tonawanda told Amherst dispatch that the female resident of 186 North Forest was texting him that her “intox boss” was at the house and had stopped responding.[14] Officers cleared an interior check as negative; subject later spotted doing the dishes in her kitchen.[15][16]
Amherst Fire's Main-Transit 8 toggled to a fire-alarm activation at 92 Dan Choi Drive between Quantico Court and Matlin Drive.[17] The homeowner called back to cancel and reported the issue: “A piece of plastic fell in the heating element. It’s disconnected to the dishwasher.”[18]
The alarm at the Original Pancake House, 5479 Main Street, lit up as a rear dining motion. Within minutes, the disposition came back: “It’s an employee that CHG set it off accidentally.”[19][20]
S-E FD Central paged out two engines & interiors, one engine to water source, plus tanker and Mercy EMS for a “possible structure fire for a house at...” (street name lost to clipped audio).[21] Springville companies returned in service by 9:06 p.m. with all units back.[22]
Niagara County dispatched ALS-priority for a male, conscious and bleeding from the face, after a motorcycle struck a parked vehicle at 260 Central Street.[23][24]
BFD Ch. 1 spent the better part of an hour at 289 Walden Avenue chasing “the smell of meat on the stove” that wasn’t there — ultimately venting via opened windows after the building’s smoke ejection system failed. “We got two hoses up here that we’re using. We’re going to dump this straight on the floor, spread it around.”[25][26][27]
Adams EMS rolled hot to Brookdale Assisted Living, 6741 Nash Road, room 601, for a 90-year-old female who fell and struck her head with uncontrolled bleeding.[28]
Buffalo Fire dispatched a polonium-signal level-2 response — engines, ladders, and a measure unit — for a commercial alarm at 3460 Bailey, UB Shulman Hall, just before 6:40 a.m.[29]
Thruway Channel 4 chatter mid-evening: “upside down behind the guardrail,” a meet-up of a tow-down crew, no injuries broadcast over the air.[30]
Amherst Fire dispatched on a Bethel Housing EMS at 199 Princeton Avenue (Princeton Court Apartments) for an 8-year-old male reported unresponsive; Twin City was already on location.[31][32]
An Amherst PD entry was made at 1:39 a.m. for a first-alarm activation at St. Gregory Rectory, 260 St. Gregory Court — a sunroom window.[33]
Tuesday night’s Escarpment 575 net (callsigns including WRUA969 and WRKX607 anchoring) got pulled deep into nostalgia by the host: “What got you into radio? — or whatever you want to talk about.”[34] What followed was a forty-five-minute roundtable on Radio Shack Navajos, late-70s neighborhood CB packs, Lafayette base stations with relays that “just heard a big relay click,”[35] drive-in movies in one-piece footed pajamas,[36] and dad reading the paper in a beat-up car listening to the Yankees on AM — with a final lament: “What really ruined it was the movie Convoy. After that, it went all downhill.”[37]
NFTA shuttle-bus Operations briefly broke its monotone-of-route-numbers cadence when the dispatcher answered a caller with a distinctly amused “Oh, Mr. Bling-Bling. Okay.”[38] The follow-up was less colorful (“Sorry I had to be... I just wanted to give everyone else a heads up”).[39]
Pre-dawn at the airport: Delta Ramp called out a stray pink-tag bag (“Somebody left a bag down”)[40] moments before someone radioed simply, “Don’t close Detroit.”[41] United Ramp meanwhile chased two missed-flight passengers through the terminal: “I’m working on Dana Gilbert and Nicole Moore.”[42]
The Cowboy Channel was alive: “And in the valley, nothing but audio in Cali, Alabama,” a CB-ear noted — classic late-night skip propagating north from the Gulf.[43]
An unusually casual moment over Buffalo-Niagara ground frequency: a controller patiently walked someone through bank ATM hours: “If you call any time during the week, during like normal business hours, they can get you to the ATM. His name is Jim. Switch you over to him and they’ll take care of it.”[44]
“Everything was orderly. There was about six kids. I told them to go back to town park,” one Cheektowaga officer cheerfully signed off.[45]
The classic homeowner mistake: “Homeowner was changing batteries and the smoke detector activated.”[46]
| Amherst-Clarence | 441 |
| FRS / GMRS | 193 |
| Municipalities | 98 |
| BNIA | 79 |
| Erie County | 75 |
| Site (BNIA + biz) | 56 |
| Simulcast / FR Ops | 51 |
| Businesses | 42 |
| Niagara County | 35 |
| Taxis & Limos | 32 |
A long, mostly mundane night across WNY. No watchlist hits — no family names, no owned-property mentions, no Williamsville incidents of note. The dominant theme was nuisance: alarm activations (3D printers, batteries, dishwashers, motion sensors at the Pancake House), benign welfare checks, and lift assists. The single most arresting beat was the “brick-to-the-head” sequence in Amherst, which read frightening on the scanner and de-escalated quickly. The Escarpment 575 GMRS net dominated the FRS band for nearly an hour with a charming nostalgia rag-chew. Traffic peaked early (290 segments at 7 p.m.) and trailed into the predawn quiet.
Marine Ops broadcast a strong-wind warning — south to southwest winds becoming northeast, evening through afternoon Wednesday.[47] Worth watching for boating and lakeshore impacts.