The WNY Listening Post

Burnt Food in Room 215 Empties the Second Floor of the Homewood Suites — Multi-Company Box Alarm to 1138 Millersport Highway[1][2][3][4][5]

A late-evening cooking fire on the second floor pulled in a full fire-hall stack — Getzville, North Bailey, Eggertsville, Ellicott Creek and Snyder all toned — before crews settled it as ventilated, occupants re-entered, and the alarm reset by 21:07.

At 19:54 Amherst Fire dispatch toned a report of “some sort of fire on the second floor” at 1138 Millersport Highway — the Homewood Suites between Hartford Road and the I-290 — with the caller describing “thick black smoke coming from the second floor” and an unknown room number.[1] Within ninety seconds dispatch had assigned North Bailey as the FAST team, requested Getzville Engine 2 with a ladder, repeated the incident on Channel 2, and started a full structural assignment.[2]

By 20:02 a Williamsville officer keyed up from the lobby confirming “smoke in and around room 216,” with the entire second floor evacuated and the source-room occupant on the phone but not on property.[3] The picture clarified quickly: at 20:08 the Fire dispatcher narrated “first food in room 215,” with no Class-A service needed.[4] The closing transmission at 21:07 wrapped cleanly — “burnt food in 215 caused a good amount of smoke on the second floor which has been ventilated, all occupants have re-entered, corresponding rooms… alarm’s also been reset.” One yard hydrant used; scene left in care.[5] Worst kitchen smell in the building, no worse damage than a charred plate.

Furnace-Side Natural Gas Leak at 132 Skyline Drive, Amherst — Caller Reports Feeling Sick[6][7]

At 16:55 Amherst Fire investigators called in a confirmed natural-gas leak at 132 Skyline Drive, between Sunrise Avenue and Stone Ridge Lane, with the smell coming “from the furnace.”[6] The dispatcher relayed that the caller was “feeling sick” but declined EMS evaluation on scene.[7] Crews held a working investigation and the channel cleared within minutes.

Husband on Ransom Oaks Reports His Wife Left for a Delta Sonic Car Wash Two Hours Ago and Hasn’t Come Home[8][9]

At 19:44 an Amherst officer keyed up with an attempt-to-locate on 120 Ransom Oaks: the complainant said his wife had left to wash the car at the Delta Sonic on either Transit Road or Niagara Falls Boulevard about two hours earlier and hadn’t returned. No mental-health concerns flagged, no cell phone on her, “great choice of Camry,” plate Lincoln-Lincoln-Town 4194.[8] Patrol pinged the license-plate reader, found a hit at the Niagara Falls Boulevard Delta Sonic at 17:21, and by 19:48 the vehicle was located and the complainant advised.[9] Resolution: nothing wrong, just a long car wash.

“Two Possible Gunshots” at 3:34 a.m. on Kmart Drive Were — on Closer Inspection — Fireworks Behind 467 Kmart[10][11]

At 03:41 an Amherst officer relayed that he’d heard two possible gunshots about ten minutes earlier near 190 Kmart Drive, with a couple of neighbors confirming the same. Direction unknown.[10] A second officer who had driven past the scene en route was quicker on the diagnosis: “There was at least one firework.” By 03:47 the source was pinned to behind 467 Kmart Drive; a sweep located nobody, and the screen was updated.[11]

Three Deer, One Night, One Patrol Channel — Walton, the 290 Off-Ramp, and Exit 3 Southbound[12][13][14]

Amherst PD spent the evening managing the deer-versus-vehicle ledger. At 21:26 the first deer was still alive in the roadway and had limped “home to 122 Walton,” where the homeowner asked to see an officer.[12] Ten minutes later a driver came over a Main Street entrance ramp toward the 290 corridor with “pretty good damage” from a hit-deer at the top of the ramp — probably barely alive or dead.[13] A third hit at 22:45 left a car-versus-deer just before Exit 3 on the I-990 south, requiring a tow; the officer marked the deer as deceased and staged it at the exit sign.[14] By 23:28 the same officer was on a fourth animal call, “going to try and get this deer out of here.” A four-deer overnight in late May tracks; fawns are dropping and the bucks are restless.

CPS-Forwarded Domestic at 4410 Chestnut Ridge — Female and Irate Boyfriend, No Callback Answer[15]

At 21:47 the Amherst dispatcher sent number four to 4410 Chestnut Ridge Road for a domestic that had come up via Child Protective Services rather than a 911 direct: a female and her boyfriend had argued and the boyfriend “became irate,” with no answer on the callback.[15] Patrol staged backup and made the door; the call cleared without an arrest line crossing the channel.

Rick from Lockport Holds Court on FRS 15 for Forty Minutes About a Cemetery, a Mountain, and the Old Camping Days[16]

If you flipped to the Family Radio Service walkie-talkie band on Thursday evening, what you got was a slow, unhurried, deeply Western-New-York conversation about a place where two retired men used to go camping — “There’s a cemetery there. We used to camp actually behind that mountain” — followed by the kind of slow goodbye that takes ten minutes and four sign-offs. The whole hour wraps with a hand-shake of callsigns: “9-7-6, 9-7-6, Rick from Lockport, we’ll be monitoring.”[16] No fire, no crash, no crime — just two men on hobbyist radios agreeing the area was a good place to relax and hang out.

Evans PD Files the Greatest Single Line of the Window: “Donald Jr. Is Not Welcome There”[17]

At 16:26 an Evans Police unit ran the call sheet for a residence equipped with cameras and a clear no-contact list: “Karen is the owner of the house. There’s no OT. There’s cameras in the house. The Donald Jr. is not welcome there.”[17] Karen is the boss. The cameras are running. Donald Jr.’s name is on the list. We have no further information and we’d like to keep it that way.

Locked Out at Niagara Falls Boulevard: Phone, Keys, and Two Dogs in Distress Sealed Inside the Vehicle[18]

17:01, Amherst PD, with the kind of compound problem only summer can produce: “They locked their phone, keys, and two dogs that are in distress inside their vehicle.”[18] No follow-up traffic on whether the dogs were freed by a slim-jim or a brick, but the dispatcher took it in stride.

Embassy Suites Niagara Region Asks Dispatch to Send the Wyndham Garden Folks to Walmart Before the Delta Bingo Run[19][20]

At 17:35 the Embassy Suites control desk on the Niagara Region trunk asked whether any driver could deliver some Wyndham Garden guests to Walmart, with the dispatcher answering “I can do a quick Walmart run before I do Delta Bingo.”[19] Ninety seconds later: “Can you please have the guests for Walmart outside, because I have to pick them up and then I have to come back for Delta Bingo. Please give me two minutes.”[20] Hospitality and hospitality logistics, in three sentences.

Cheektowaga PD Spends Five Minutes Debating Whether a Street Sign Was Down or Just Damaged[21][22]

A Depew officer found a felled street sign “completely out of the ground and leaning on this driveway,” reporting it was leaning on some wires. By 00:45 it was “going to be us then” for cleanup — jurisdiction handed to Cheektowaga.[21] The follow-up at 00:52: “Is the sign down or just damaged?” A pause. “It’s on the ground. It looks like it might still be in the ground. Just give me one sec, I’ll take another look.”[22] Quantum-state municipal infrastructure: simultaneously down and not.

HMS Security at the Stadium Pulls a Late-Night Project-Update from Whoever’s Out There Working Concrete[23]

At 23:57 HMS Security — the venue-side guards covering the Sports Venues trunk — opened the radio with the most American sentence of the night: “Are we, uh, is Union Concrete working throughout the night, or are they leaving us?”[23] No answer was carried on the channel. Whether Union Concrete poured till dawn is left as an exercise for the reader.

Embassy Suites Niagara Region: Room 1516 Safe Won’t Open, Housekeeping’s in the Room[24]

The Niagara Region casino-corridor hotels run a busy in-house channel, and Wyndham Garden generated more than its share of it. At 17:09 the Embassy control desk reported “Room 1516, the safe, won’t open. Housekeeping’s in the room.”[24] A traveler somewhere in Niagara Falls, on the wrong side of a four-digit code, waiting for maintenance with a master.

Amherst PD Closes a Call With “Shabbat Shalom”[25]

21:57. The radio is mostly “10-4” and “temple” and “copy.” And then an Amherst officer signs off a routine clear with “Shabbat shalom.”[25] Good evening, officer.

Cardiac Arrest on a City Bus at 77 Main Street, Niagara Falls — CPR in Progress, ALS Priority Recommended[26][27]

At 15:19 Niagara County Fire dispatch toned an EMS call to 77 Main Street, between Locust and Pine, for a 67-year-old male in cardiac arrest on a bus, CPR already in progress.[26] ALS priority recommended on LST TAC-1. South La Porte was paged for mutual aid into the city.[27] No outcome carried back across the trunk during the brief’s window.

Cattaraugus County Calls Erie for Help on a Stabbing: 30-Ish Male, Abdominal Wound, Bleeding Controlled by the Caller[28]

At 04:34 an Erie County Sheriff dispatcher pulled traffic off the Cattaraugus County channel: “30-ish-year-old male stabbed in the abdomen,” the caller speaking broken English on the line, not cooperative, attempting to control the bleeding on the victim.[28] The dispatcher noted the victim was breathing. Address relayed at 159 Eldridge. Erie units headed that way for mutual-aid coverage.

BFD Engine 37 to 528 Richmond Avenue, Second Floor — Two-Year-Old Female, Altered Level of Consciousness[29]

At 21:38 Buffalo Fire dispatch sent Engine 37 EMS to a second-floor apartment at 528 Richmond Avenue between West Ferry and Breckenridge: a two-year-old female, deathly ill, altered level of consciousness.[29] No further outcome carried on the trunk.

Level-2 Commercial Fire Alarm at the Roswell Power-Plant Block — 1088 Niagara at Prospect / Maple[30]

At 19:03 BFD Ch.1 toned a Level-2 commercial alarm at 1088 Niagara Street between Michigan and Maple — the Roswell Park power-plant block — with Engine 721, Engine 2, Ladder 6, and B-44 on the assignment.[30] No working-fire upgrade carried on the channel; treat as alarm activation pending investigation.