Around the Neighborhood
Williamsville, Amherst, Clarence · What the radios said today
Developing
Girl Halfway Out a Snyder Second-Story Window Triggers Ladder Call — Then a Quiet Climb-Down
543 Allenhurst, between Yale and Longmeadow. Cars, a ladder request, then a cancellation, then a CPS phone call.
Around 12:23, a caller reported “what appears to be a 13-year-old female hanging from the second-floor window like she’s going to fall” at 543 Allenhurst.[2] A unit at the scene confirmed she was “halfway out the window on the top floor, alley side” and asked Ellicott Creek to roll a ladder.[3] Minutes later, with Twin City Ambulance committed to the scene, the supervising officer downgraded the call: “there’s no danger of a 10-23 here, but this might be some kind of neglect situation.”[4] The ladder truck was cancelled, mom went to voicemail, and the responding officer asked dispatch to loop in Child Protective Services.[5] A description of the household — “disabled, visually impaired… nonverbal also” — suggests the parents were located and brought in to talk in person.[6]
Motorcycle
Maple-and-Flint Motorcycle Wreck Blamed on a Stuck Throttle, Leaves Gas on the Pavement
A clean-shot intersection call that turned into a fuel-leak.
An Amherst PD car staged at 10:02 for an MVA involving a motorcycle at Maple and Flint.[7] The supervising officer told radio it “should be a cleaner shot” once unit 4-6 covered the corner. By 10:07, an officer on scene reported the cause: “just the motorcycle throttle got stuck… Fire’s on the road now,” followed by “10-4, gas leak.”[8] Twin City 242 cleared the call back in service from ECMC about an hour later.[9]
Pediatric
Two-Year-Old Actively Seizing Inside the Pediatric & Adolescent Center on Maple
East Amherst rolled to 1800 Maple Road for an emergency that resolved on the rig’s way in.
At 12:04, Amherst Fire dispatched East Amherst EMS to the Pediatric and Adolescent Urgent Care at 1800 Maple Road for “a two-year-old male actively seizing.”[10] Dispatch corrected the address note moments later — “Between Young’s Road and Air Road for a zero-two-year-old male actively seizing.”[11] Within five minutes, the supervising unit cleared the seizure note: “no longer seizing… conscious.”[12] Twin City 249 transported to Oishei Children’s.[13]
Clarence MVA
Two Cars, Three Patients, No Extrication on Schiessler Road in Clarence
Amherst-Clarence fire control logged a two-vehicle collision off the West Shore Trail.
Amherst Fire Dispatch paged Clarence at 13:14 for a motor-vehicle accident at 4450 Schiessler Road, between Bird Toad Road and the West Shore Trail.[14] By 13:19, the incident commander reported “two cars, three patients, no extrication… probable sign-off,”[15] with all three patients ultimately released at the scene. Crews held with the rescue alone and were back in service by 13:25.[16]
Fire Alarm
People Inc. Fire Alarm on Wehrle Drive — “Same Attic Heat Detector We’ve Been Dealing With”
4146 Wehrle Drive evacuated, then cleared. North Bailey held in quarters.
At 14:30, North Bailey Fire was paged on a fire-alarm activation at People Incorporated, 4146 Wehrle Drive between Villas Drive East and Sweet Home Road.[17] The first crew on location reported the building evacuated, investigating.[18] Six minutes later, the IC closed it out: “same attic heat detector we’ve been dealing with. You can hold all my units in quarters.”[19] A recurring nuisance, not a fire.
Clarence Center
Adult Seizure on Railroad Street — “Starting to Come Out of It”
Clarence Center EMS rolled to 6132 Railroad Street near Goodrich.
At 14:17, Clarence Hunter Fire was dispatched to 6132 Railroad Street between Village Mill Lane and Goodrich Road for “a male in his 30s, actively seizing.”[20] By dispatch’s second page, the patient was “post-seizure, starting to come out of it.”[21]
Snyder
Mental-Hygiene Call for Apartment 313, “Paranoid, Delusional, Not Taking His Medication”
Family asked Amherst PD for a 945 on a man born in 1957.
At 13:34, Amherst PD took a call for apartment 313, where family said they’d be waiting outside the door. The complaint summary on the air: “Checking on a male born in 1957. Paranoid, delusional, not taking his medication. They want a 945 on him.”[22] A second transmission confirmed the family wanted the mental-hygiene transport.[23]
Williamsville
Pedestrian-on-a-Bike Struck at 4990 Sheridan, Cyclist Walked Home Before Cops Arrived
An Amherst PD call that briefly became a missing-patient call.
At 07:25, Amherst PD logged a pedestrian-struck on a bike at 4990 Sheridan Drive, with stomach and ankle injuries.[24] By the time the unit reached the corner, an officer told radio: “The bicyclist went home already… want to get more information there?”[25] A subsequent transmission cleared it up — “Sounded like the husband picked her up and took her home, but we’re getting a call from her now.”[26] Twin City 226 transported one patient to ECMC.[27]
Crisis
Group-Home Crisis Call on Harlem Road — “Said He Wanted to Shoot Himself and He Had a Gun”
Amherst PD scrambled units after Crisis Services flagged a 4799 Harlem caller.
At 07:34, an Amherst PD dispatcher described a party at the group home at 4799 Harlem Road who “wants to go to CPEP, claims he wants to kill himself.”[28] Fourteen minutes later, an officer on the channel relayed an urgent update: “We called Crisis Services two minutes ago to say he wanted to shoot himself and he had a gun.”[29] Subsequent traffic on the trunk did not surface a tactical escalation or barricade page during the eight-hour window, suggesting the encounter resolved without one.
Tim Hortons
Alarm Trip at the Maple Road Tim Hortons “From the Drive-Thru”
Employee-tripped hold-up code, no incident.
At 10:04, Amherst PD logged an alarm at Tim Hortons, 870 Maple Road — “Maple Old Line, from the drive-thru.”[30] A few minutes later: “This is accidental by employee… Anybody come to the concierge section. Next is my employee for the hold-up.”[31]
Overheard: The Wires
The signature feature · The strange, the funny, the genuinely human
What the…?!
SharpBusLine’s Worst Tuesday: “I’ve Had Enough.” · “The Bomb Is Not Coming Out.”
A Canadian charter-bus driver, eighteen minutes apart, on the same private FRS channel.
At 13:23:29, on the Canadian Transport trunk that bleeds across the river, a SharpBusLine driver keyed up to share: “I’ve had enough.”[32] At 13:41:47 — eighteen minutes and apparently no resolution later — the same driver came back on the air with the line of the day: “The bomb is not coming out.”[33] Editorial note: the channel context is a tour-bus company. The phrasing is regrettably literal in the way only a long-haul bathroom-stop transmission can be. Safe travels, Sharp.
Exclusive
Amherst PD Cannot Get the Pigeon Off Her Roof. She Has Been Advised.
A welfare check for the bird never quite materialized.
At 13:29, an Amherst PD officer paged dispatch for a phone number on a complainant on Layton: “I just want to advise her I can’t get a bird off the roof.”[34] Thirteen minutes later, the officer closed the loop: “The person who found the pigeon called me back and I gave them some advice… They’re going to call back if it comes on the ground. You can close it.”[35] The pigeon’s next move is currently undocumented.
Outer County
“Eighty-Year-Old Male Was Kicked by a Cow” on Mote Road — Unconscious
Wyoming County Fire 1 first paged it as “an 8-year-old.” The corrected page made it considerably worse.
At 14:02:08, Wyoming County Fire 1 reported a call at 3532 Mote Road: “An 8-year-old male was kicked by a cow. He’s now unconscious.”[36] Twenty-three seconds later, the corrected page came across the same channel and re-aged the patient by a factor of ten: “8532 Mote Road, 80-year-old male was kicked by a cow.”[37] A later transmission asked responders to “just park anywhere up there and block the road”[38] — consistent with a farm-driveway extrication on a narrow rural road.
Stadium Ops
The 300-Level Hot Water Is Up Around 120, “Do We Know That Valves Are Open?”
HMS Security spent the mid-morning chasing a heating-zone fault.
From 09:41 on, an HMS Security operator at one of the downtown arenas worked through the kind of mechanical-room call that radio listeners rarely get to overhear: “Right up into the 40s at all this is dorm Dave is working on it right now from Stark. He’s working on getting the chill…”[39] Followed by: “The other question is hot water to 300 level… I see that in the BMS we’ve got water temperatures up around 120. Do we know that valves are open?”[40] Reply: “Honey, there, all valves are open…”[41] A later transmission asks Aiden to take someone on a radio check through the building — “Dimitri’s not here.”[42]
Dispatcher Affection
Buffalo Water Department Greets the Morning Crew: “You Up Finally, Huh? It’s Woke Up, Sweetheart.”
An unguarded utilities trunk catches a quiet check-in.
At 13:33 on the city Water channel, a dispatcher opened with “Bigger boy,”[43] followed seconds later by “You up, huh? You up finally, huh?” and “It’s woke up, sweetheart.”[44] The kind of transmission that reminds the listener that the people on the wires are, in fact, people.
School-Bus Yard
Grand Island Central Yard Tries to Find a Phone — and Loses a Driver Going in Reverse Down Stony Point
Two GI Central transmissions, five minutes apart, sketch a portrait of an afternoon.
At 14:38, “Teresa” called “Jay” on the Schools (Erie) channel to ask if he had “found a phone this morning… last name is Burns.”[45] Jay had not. Five minutes later, the same yard radio caught a driver-control problem in the wild: “Well, now he’s driving in reverse down the road, so I don’t know what he’s doing… he’s been flying down Stony Point the whole way.”[46]
Honest Broadcasting
BroadwayTaxi Driver, Mid-Shift, Calmly Loses It: “I Don’t Know What I’m Saying.”
A 14:09 transmission to a dispatcher named Jamie.
At 14:09:23, a BroadwayTaxi driver keyed up: “I mean, Jamie, we’re in grace… It’s right by the library… I don’t know what I’m saying.”[47] The most relatable transmission of the window.
Regional Blotter
Erie, Niagara, Genesee, Orleans, Wyoming · Wire-service voice
Buffalo
BFD Engine 26 Sent to a Hissing Gas Meter on Albemarle
At 14:42, Buffalo Fire Ch.1 paged out a box alarm for 39 Albemarle, between Doyle and Resch, “to investigate report of a gas meter hissing… go for Engine 26, Ladder 13.”[48] Earlier on the same channel, Engine 36 was placed on an EMS call at Delaware and Hertel[49] and a separate companies-only response was handled and downgraded at a terminal-function call.[50]
Niagara
Stroke-Pattern Call on Lower River Road, Lewiston
At 11:37, Niagara County Fire Control dispatched on a second EMS call at 4094 Lower River Road, between Joseph Davis Park and the bot-on-the-road approach, for “a 69-year-old male, possible stroke, slurred speech and one-sided weakness… ALS priority response recommended.”[51] A separate stroke-pattern recommendation came across the same channel at 14:38 — “No stroke history. ALS priority response recommended.”[52]
Tonawanda
Stadium Concession-Stand Fire Alarm at 600 Fletcher Street
At 09:36, Tonawanda Fire Dispatch paged a commercial fire-alarm activation at 600 Fletcher Street — the alarm specifically “coming from the concession stand and stadium area.”[53] A standard all-stations-and-monitors notification followed without a working-fire upgrade.[54]
Other Calls of Note
07:39Amherst FireNorth Amherst mutual aid to Wendelville at 5970 Hoppy Court for a large 86-year-old male, additional manpower requested.[55]
08:38Amherst FireSmoke-detector activation at 37 Belmont Place, between Arenda Avenue and North Ellicott Street; Williamsville-9 on location.[56]
09:57Amherst FireEast Amherst EMS to 8398 Black Walnut Drive, 79-year-old female with cardiac history, chest pain.[57]
10:03Amherst FireAkron EMS to 25 Westgate Avenue at the Cloisters Apartments.[58]
10:36Amherst FireWilliamsville EMS to 663 Downing Lane, between Chelsea Lane and the dead end, 84-year-old male whose internal defibrillator shocked him.[59]
12:27Amherst FireColony EMS to 391 Forest View Drive, 72-year-old female in and out of consciousness.[60]
13:28Amherst FireMain-Transit EMS to 125 MacArthur Drive, 88-year-old female fell, bleeding from a head injury.[61]
13:32Amherst FireEMS to 285 Peppertree Drive at Peppertree Heights Apartments, 60-year-old female fallen outside in a lawn chair, bleeding.[62]
12:32Genesee FDPage to 233 Poletop Road between Swamp Road and Town Line Road.[63]
12:40Niagara FDEMS to apartment R at 515, 82-year-old female with flu/cold-like symptoms, weakness and nausea, BLS priority.[64]
14:26Niagara FDFire-alarm activation, units held in fighting order.[65]
11:35Lackawanna FDEMS responding to a patient in the backyard.[66]
12:59MercyFlightFox 6 transport over to ECMC.[67]
13:08Med-43Pub-Safety Comm fragment, brief check-in.[68]
14:18Cheektowaga FDRescue EMS, 32-year-old female with chest pain and rapid heartbeat.[69]
11:53Orleans FDEMS to 203 Sunset Drive for a 57-year-old male.[70]
12:33Orleans FDFamily-member ambulance request, 512 Ohio Street, 78-year-old male with prior falls.[71]