Amherst · High Ledge / Charlestown Road

A Father's Frantic Search for His 14-Year-Old

She had left home against the rules days after a reported overdose attempt; officers tracked her between two addresses.

At 18:19, an Amherst father told dispatch his “14-year-old daughter left and she wasn't supposed to” — a white female, tall and thin, in black shorts that looked like a skirt and a tank top, long brown hair. The reason for the urgency followed: “she apparently tried to commit suicide a few days ago via pills”. Officers were sent to High Ledge and to a second location on Charlestown Road, where the girl was believed to be.

The call resurfaced just before 19:34 as units re-checked the Charlestown address for a welfare check. The dispatch carried the quiet weight these calls always do — a parent afraid, a child who had slipped out a door she was told to stay behind.

Amherst · Sheridan Drive at Harlem Road

A Red Corvette and a Guardrail It Seemed to Want

A passerby reported a sports car that looked like it had hit the rail on purpose; the driver was gone before police arrived.

At 19:50, Amherst PD asked units to check the area of Sheridan Drive[*] and Harlem Road[*] after a passing motorist flagged something unsettling: “a red Corvette that looks like it struck the guardrail on purpose”. By the time officers worked the corner, the report had not turned into a person or a plate, and the on-air thread went quiet.

Snyder · 85 Royal Parkway East

An Unresponsive 81-Year-Old in Snyder

Twin City Ambulance and Snyder EMS responded to an elderly man not alert at home.

At 19:11, Amherst Fire dispatched EMS to 85 Royal Parkway, between Royal Parkway West and King Place, for an “81-year-old male, not alert”. Twin City 244 pulled up within minutes and the call settled into a transport — one of several medical runs that threaded the evening before the overnight fire.

Amherst · Ruskin Road / Coniston Road

The Neighbor Accused of Shooting Squirrels

A caller had been hearing 'popping noises all day' and reached a confident conclusion about the source.

At 16:19, Amherst PD took a possible neighbor dispute on Ruskin Road. The caller, dispatch relayed, “has been hearing popping noises all day” — and had settled on a theory: that “her neighbor on Coniston is shooting squirrels”. The officer's note was almost a verdict in itself: there was no history at the Coniston address for the last ten years. Some popping noises, it turns out, are just popping noises.

Amherst · 24 Cullen Haven

A Door, a Shove, and a Family Doing Its Best

A father in his 80s, possibly with dementia, pushed his wife out of the house; a daughter sorted it out by phone.

At 15:38, Amherst PD worked a delicate one at 24 Cullen Haven: the parents were “in their 80s, the male possibly had dementia and shoved the female out the door”. A sister, not on scene, told officers the mother was “back inside, and she wanted to pick her up after work”. By 17:52 the loop closed gently — the sister was back, and dispatch verified mom was all there and accounted for.

Amherst · Westmoreland Road at Berryman Drive

The Pile of Dirt That Wouldn't Stay Put

A roadway dirt heap looked, an officer warned, like it would 'eventually end up in the backyard of 189 Berryman.'

At 15:50, an officer reported a large pile of dirt in the roadway at Westmoreland Road and Berryman Drive. The follow-up half an hour later had the unmistakable cadence of a slow-motion neighbor dispute in the making: the “pile of dirt looks like it's going to eventually end up in the backyard of 189 Berryman”, nobody answered the door, and through a hole in the fence it looked like someone was actively working the yard.

Amherst · APD ATL

The Range Rover That Was Never Missing

An ATL for a black Land Rover with Maryland plates unraveled when the owner answered the phone — car still in Buffalo.

Starting around 16:28, Amherst PD chased a Buffalo-relayed attempt-to-locate for a black Land Rover Evoque with Maryland plates. The descriptions wobbled — a Range Rover, then a Land Rover, then back again — until an officer simply called the owner. The tidy resolution at 16:33: the party with the Maryland plates said “his black Range Rover is still in Buffalo, all black and heavily tinted”. Mystery solved by telephone.

Amherst · 155 High Park Boulevard

The Bonfire That Passed Inspection

A late-night complaint about a bonfire ended with the fire department's blessing.

At 23:14, Amherst PD logged an ongoing request about a bonfire at 155 High Park Boulevard[*]. The fire department's verdict, broadcast at 23:28, was a model of restraint: “small bonfire within regulations, almost out, and we spoke with APD”. Earlier in the evening crews had cleared an unrelated scare two ways — fireworks tossed in a trash can that briefly looked like something worse.

Buffalo · 420 Fargo Avenue

BFD Rolls a Collapse Team to Fargo Avenue

A caller reported a building looking unsafe next to a vacant lot; BFD sent a special assignment to investigate.

At 18:56, Buffalo Fire ran a special assignment — engines, ladders and the collapse team — to the vicinity of 420 Fargo Avenue, between Rhode Island and Massachusetts. A caller at 420 said it was “a building in the eyesight of their building next to a vacant lot”: a gray brick commercial building with graffiti, no residents but people who apparently worked inside. Crews were assigned to investigate the structure rather than fight a fire.

Tonawanda · 550 Fletcher Street

Fire Alarm at a Fletcher Street Group Home

Tonawanda Fire rolled a truck and engine on a first-floor alarm activation at a group home.

At 16:16, Tonawanda Fire dispatched to 550 Fletcher Street, identified as a group home, for “a residential fire alarm activation, first-floor pull station”. A truck and engine took the corner and the activation resolved without a reported fire.