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Tier 1 · Owned Property
A 59-Year-Old Man Fell Into a Forklift at Dimar Manufacturing on Research Parkway — Clarence EMS and Engine 92 Responding
At 11:23 Amherst Fire dispatch toned Clarence EMS to 4280 Research Parkway for a fifty-nine-year-old male who had “fallen into the forklift,” with what dispatch initially called “facial injuries.” The address is Dimar Manufacturing — the only tenant on that stretch of Research Parkway — though the responding crew, working off the audible name, called it onto the air as “Seymour Manufacturing” in the follow-up traffic. Clarence 1 and Clarence 92 acknowledged en route within sixty seconds, and a second confirmation went out at 11:24. The radio did not carry a patient-status update before the channel moved on; treat the call as resolution unknown pending the next window. There is no follow-up traffic on Amherst-Clarence in the remaining three and a half hours of the brief that ties back to the address.
Around the Neighborhood Williamsville, Clarence, the village block →
Mutual Aid
Akron, Clarence and Newstead All Get the Page: a Dryer Fire at 13370 Main Road, Newstead — Eventually Called a “10-Ton Industrial Dryer”
The first page went out at 11:38 as a “dryer fire” at 3370 Main Road, Newstead — address quickly corrected on the air to 13370 Main Road, between Beale Street and Golden Pond. By 11:50 the call had been re-toned as mutual aid with Akron and Clarence pulled in, operating on Channel 2. A dispatch transmission a minute later described the unit as “a ten-ton industrial dryer” on the Mollison side — closer to commercial laundry equipment than to a household appliance, which is why the response stack grew that quickly. Eastside and Buffalo airports’ tones followed; Akron and Clarence both went en route. The channel cleared by the early afternoon with no escalation language on the air.
MVA · Williamsville
An Elderly Driver at the Firestone, 3931 Maple Road — Drove Over the Curb, Almost Struck Multiple People, Witnesses Said She Shouldn’t Be Driving
12:00, Amherst PD: an accident call at the Firestone shop on Maple Road. The dispatcher relayed verbatim from the complainant — an elderly female driver had pulled in, gone over the curb, and nearly hit multiple people standing in the lot; bystanders “don’t think she is fit to drive.” Twenty-three minutes later the responding officer keyed back with the unexpected denouement: he was giving the driver a ride home to 203 Fairgreen, and asked dispatch to reclassify the call as an assist — “there was no PDO. I followed her to her house in Tonawanda across the boulevard. Her driving was fine.” One opinion at the curb, a different one behind the wheel.
MVA · Williamsville
Two-Vehicle Collision at Wehrle Drive and South Cedar — Followed Twenty Minutes Later by Another MVA in Front of the Lockwood Villas on Sweet Home
The afternoon ran two collisions in close sequence. At 14:20 Amherst Fire dispatched a Williamsville MVA at Wehrle Drive and South Cedar Road, with firefighters reporting two minor injuries on arrival — the patient who declined was left in care of Twin City. Four minutes later a second call came in: 493 Sweet Home Road, in front of the Lockwood Villas at Commerce and Sunshine, one driver complaining of neck pain. The Williamsville EMS rig was still rolling when a third call dropped: 5629 Main Street at the Creekview Restaurant, possible seizure, prompting a re-route mid-response. Both MVAs cleared without transport escalation; the seizure call drew Williamsville 5 and Rushby 7 directly to Creekview.
Pediatric Medical
A Seven-Year-Old at Daffodil Housing, 160 Robin Road — Possible Airway Obstruction, Difficulty Breathing
13:54: Amherst Fire toned Daffodil EMS to 160 Robin Road — the Daffodil Housing complex off Walton Way — for a seven-year-old male, possible airway obstruction with difficulty breathing. A 230 unit was added in the same page. The transmission carried the urgency of a Bravo-level pediatric call, but no follow-up traffic indicated escalation; the call cleared without a Mercy Flight tone.
Reckless Driver
Northbound on Sweet Home, Passing the 990 Overpass — Vehicle Not Stopping for Patrol
11:43, Amherst PD: an officer keyed up on Sweet Home Road approaching the 990 overpass, reporting a vehicle that would not stop for patrol — plate Mary-Adam-George-3790 — “just going with the speed limit right now.” A second officer offered to head over and cover. The pursuit did not appear to escalate on the radio; there is no associated stop, crash, or backup call in the next ten minutes of traffic.
Workplace Injury
A Motorcyclist Dumped His Own Bike on Klein Road — Conscious, Talking, Civilians Already Helping
12:35: Amherst Fire toned a motorcycle accident, then the responding officer clarified for dispatch: “He dumped his own bike, no other vehicle involved. He is conscious and talking, being attended to by some people that pulled over to assist.” No transport request was logged on the channel. A single-vehicle motorcyclist down, bystanders converging — the kind of incident that does not always make it onto a brief, but the bystander first response is the textbook here.
Quality-of-Life
Tops at 3500 Main Street — A Man in a Wheelchair, Multiple Open Alarms in “Our Town”
14:51: an Amherst officer keyed up from the Tops at 3500 Main Street with a customer-trouble call — a male in a wheelchair outside the store, not cooperating, with multiple outstanding alarms attached to his name out of Amherst. The dispatcher asked whether a car was available to cover number nine for the same address. The brief closed before the wheelchair user’s call did.
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What the …?!
The Duckling Roundup at Maple and Culpeper — Then the Injured Turtle Side Quest
14:01. An Amherst officer keyed up, all business: “I’m going to be out at Maple and Culpeper with some ducklings. I don’t see a mom around. I just caught three. I’ll be looking for the rest.” Thirty-eight minutes later the inventory had grown: “We have six ducklings. I do believe they’re all out. Highway, help me out. I do not see the mother anywhere, so I am going to have to take them to the SPCA.” Then, on the way to the SPCA, he negotiated a detour with himself on the air: “However, I’ll take a drive by Maple to see if that turtle’s injured before I head out there.” The turtle was, in fact, injured. Eleven minutes later: “I located the turtle. It is also injured, so I’ll be taking that out there too.” Six ducklings, one turtle, one cruiser, one uniformed wildlife transport mission — pulled off in the middle of the lunchtime call queue. The Village of Williamsville, on a Thursday afternoon.
Animal Control
A Loose Quaker Parrot Coaxed-Not-Down — Logged as a Sighting, Posted to Facebook
08:25. An Amherst officer, on the air, to dispatch: “I got here, and I was unable to coax it down. It appears to be a Quaker parrot, which doesn’t match the log. So I will log it as a sighting and post it on Facebook.” Two thoughts in sequence: the bird in the tree does not match the bird that had been reported earlier, and the platform of record for missing parrots is, in 2026, Facebook.
Public Exposure
The Construction Worker at 35 Kingsway Who Was “Getting to Know Himself” Earlier This Morning
09:07. Amherst PD took an exposure call from a complainant at 35 Kingsway: there is a construction project running behind her house, and “one of the workers was getting to know himself earlier this morning.” Dispatch took the report; no air-traffic follow-up identifies the worker or the contractor. The phrasing is what carried the call.
Welfare Check
The Blue Honda With the Slumped Driver at 63 Hallwell — Turned Out He Was Alert, His Wife Was Just Cleaning the House
11:23. Welfare check on a blue Honda SUV parked outside 63 Hallwell with a male possibly slumped over inside. The responding officer arrived within minutes; eight minutes after that, the situation resolved itself: “He’s alert. He just says his wife’s cleaning the house over there.” A man waiting in his own driveway and a passerby reading the worst into it — the kindest reading the brief can offer of how welfare checks generate themselves.
Frequent Flyer
A Welfare Check at the 4799 Harlem Road Group Home — “He Said He Needed Help, Laughed and Hung Up”
08:32. Amherst PD took a known-trouble welfare call at the group home at 4799 Harlem Road. The synopsis from dispatch was complete in one sentence: “A male said he needed help, laughed and hung up. It was mapping to that address.” The officer who responded came back at 08:35 with a brief background on the resident — many years of similar calls — and a dispatcher closed with two words: “Great job, Pete.”
Tools Down
Trinity West Flagged Down an Officer About a Wheelbarrow in the Lane on the X-Ray
11:19. An Amherst officer keyed up with a small mystery: he had been flagged down on the lot at Trinity West about a wheelbarrow that had reportedly migrated into the travel lane on the X-Ray — whatever X-Ray means in the village dialect; the cross-street did not make it onto the audible portion of the cut. The officer drove up to check on it. We will assume the wheelbarrow was retrieved without further drama.
Customer Trouble
The Movers at 86 Southwind Trail Were Demanding More Money — and Getting Aggressive About It
08:44. Amherst PD dispatched on a customer-trouble call at 86 Southwind Trail: “Some movers on location, now they’re demanding more money and they’re getting aggressive with the complaint.” The further description was of a silver Elantra in the driveway. A familiar Buffalo-area moving-day scam pattern — the price quoted on the phone is not the price asked for at the truck.
Wrong Number
The Supercuts at 7808 Transit — a PDO Request Tagged on the End of an Amherst PD Hand-Off
12:51. A short coda inside a busy hour: an Amherst dispatcher passed an outgoing officer a tail-end task for the day — a PDO at the Supercuts at 7808 Transit, “for the sheriffs.” The yesterday-PM brief carried a separate, related Supercuts call on Niagara Falls Boulevard about a customer who would not stop calling. A two-day Supercuts micro-saga is officially in progress.
Regional Blotter Across WNY, briefly →
Erie County / Buffalo · A Seventeen-Year-Old Female, Two Months Pregnant, EMS Call on Palmer Street
13:34: BFD Ch1 toned EMS to Palmer Street, between Sycamore and Black Street, for a seventeen-year-old female reported as two months pregnant. The page itself was short; no escalation came across the channel.
Niagara County · Overdose on Amitriptyline, 6408 O’Connor Drive — Enter Through the Garage
13:21: Niagara County Fire Control paged 6408 O’Connor Drive, between Suzanne and Erna, for a fifty-seven-year-old female — an overdose on amitriptyline, with directions to enter through the garage door. ALS priority recommended on FD EMS. No transport-time follow-up on the cut.
Niagara County · A Ninety-Three-Year-Old Female Unable to Be Awoken Since 3 a.m., 746 Lockport Road — Mutual Aid From Youngstown
14:47, then re-toned at 14:51: 746 Lockport Road in the Town of Lewiston, between Niagara Scenic Parkway and East Avenue. A ninety-three-year-old female unable to be awoken since three in the morning, breathing normally, possibly dehydrated. Niagara County Fire Control re-paged the call to bring in Youngstown and Ransomville EMS as mutual aid — the brief closed before the resolution did.
Niagara County · Twenty-Two-Year-Old With Severe Upper-Abdominal Pain at the WellNow on South Transit Road
14:54: NC Fire Control paged 5801 South Transit Road, the WellNow urgent-care between Strauss Road and Shimer Drive, for a twenty-two-year-old female with severe upper-abdominal pain. BLS priority recommended on FD EMS.
Regional Blotter Other Calls of Note One-line bulletins →
09:13 · Amherst Getzville commercial CO detector activation at 111 Maple Road, second-floor; cleared as construction-related, no hazard found.
09:15 · Amherst Fire-alarm activation at the Flooring and Financial Group, 1825 Maple Road, between Aero and Maple Leaf; cleared as construction-related.
10:13 · Newstead Akron-Newstead Senior Center, 5691 Cummings Road — thirty-six-year-old male with a nosebleed, Newstead 94 responding.
10:36 · Amherst An abandoned purple-and-cream Dodge with the window smashed and no front plate, in the side lot at 10 Flint Road facing the Marriott. Later upgraded on the air to “an entire camper van.”
11:00 · Amherst Commercial-alarm activation at the Frankel Lambert Weiss offices, 20 Lawrenceville Drive, Apt. 200 — tamper alarm.
11:46 · East Amherst Eggertsville EMS to 9410 Transit Road, between St. Casey Road and Miles Road — sixty-four-year-old female, neck-and-shoulder pain, self-sufficient.
12:42 · Williamsville Carousel EMS to 5175 Transit Road at the driving range, Carousel 92 responding.
12:55 · Amherst Summit Educational Resources, 150 Stahl Road — five-year-old male fell off the playground with a head injury.
13:54 · Buffalo EMS 1001E in the rear — bleeding and vomiting, Engine 33 responding, between Norfolk and Olympic.
14:09 · Williamsville Snyder EMS to the CVS Pharmacy at 2010 Niagara Falls Boulevard — twenty-year-old male.
14:38 · Amherst Denmark second call — fire-alarm activation at 161 Rollingwood; later cleared as auto-malfunction, alarm reset prior to arrival.
12:18 · Amherst Threats-at-work call: a complainant going outside while the subject who has previously threatened her remained inside the building.
13:57 · Williamsville An elderly male caller appears to have been getting scammed; oriented, on his way, officer adding comments to the call.
14:25 · Lancaster Lancaster FD District 1 dispatched to Eye Care Professionals.
12:01 · Grand Island Grand Island Fire to a vehicle fire, out prior to arrival; ten gallons of water for overhaul, in service at noon.