Royal Cuisine’s Grill Goes Up at 3324 Sheridan — Eggertsville Pumper, Getzville Ladder, North Bailey Fast Team All Roll
An on-scene caller and an Amherst PD officer simultaneously reported the main grill on fire at the Filipino restaurant just west of Sheridan and Eggert; the next-door fryer melted, but the building was saved with a knockdown inside six minutes and $5,000 in contents damage, zero to the structure.
11:47 · Amherst Fire Dis The first hint was the alarm company — a zone 18 pull-box activation at 3324 Sheridan Drive, between Augusta Avenue and Sweet Home[1]. Three minutes later Amherst PD upgraded it on the air: “kitchen fire at Royal Cuisine, Polio Restaurant… the main grill is on fire”[2]. Amherst Fire ran the box accordingly — Eggertsville Center pumper, Ellicott Creek pumper, Getzville ladder, North Bailey fast team[3].
11:53 · Amherst Fire Dis The on-scene chief reported the fire contained to the top of the stove and the fryer next to it melted[4]. By 11:56 the fire was out, with the inspector and Erie County Health Department left on scene[5]. The final tally from dispatch: gas line down, gas shut off the entire building, $5,000 contents damage, no structural loss[6]. A textbook fast-knockdown box on a busy stretch of Sheridan — the kind of call that, ten minutes later, you only know happened by the smell on the sidewalk.