Buffalo · Skyway · Suicide Attempt

A Woman in a White Dress Threatens to Jump From the Skyway, Walking in Traffic

Buffalo police and fire converged on the outbound span; officers reached her and got her off the bridge.

Yesterday at 5:02 PM, Buffalo police pushed cars onto the outbound Skyway for a suicide attempt — a woman reported walking in traffic and trying to jump off the bridge. "Female's trying to jump off the bridge," came the terse dispatch, and a car identified as 432 rolled almost immediately, calling in repeatedly as it climbed the span.

Buffalo Fire dispatched units onto Route 5 southbound alongside the police response. Within minutes officers had her: "Do you guys have her?" a car asked, and the answer came back, "Yeah, we have her." A supervisor took the call primary, planning to get the woman off the Skyway and stage AMR at a meeting point. The multi-agency response ended with her safely in custody rather than over the rail.

Williamsville · Transit & Wehrle · Pedestrian Struck

A Pedestrian Thrown Into the Air by a Gold SUV on Transit at Wehrle, Head Injury Feared

The man was struck in front of PETA Gourmet; Bowmansville medics had him in ALS care within minutes.

Yesterday at 7:45 PM, Amherst fire dispatch sent crews to 6733 Transit Road at Wehrle Drive, in front of PETA Gourmet, for a pedestrian struck by a gold SUV. The account over the air was alarming: the man had been thrown into the air by the impact, with a possible head injury and extent of injuries unknown.

Bowmansville units were on scene quickly and had the patient in ALS care by roughly 7:52 PM. A pedestrian struck at one of the Northtowns' busiest intersections is exactly the kind of run that rarely lands well, and dispatch treated the head injury as the driving concern.

Depew · The Pavilion · Strong-Arm Robbery

Juveniles Shake Down a Child for Money at the Pavilion in a Suburban Strong-Arm Robbery

Depew police were called to the west side of the plaza as a group of youths took cash off a child.

Yesterday at 10:44 PM, Depew police responded to the west side of the Pavilion for a strong-arm robbery reported in progress — a group of juveniles shaking down a child and taking money off him. The call came in as an active incident, with officers heading to the plaza to break up the group.

A child robbed by a pack of teenagers at a suburban shopping plaza is the kind of run that stands out against the Southtowns' usual overnight of falls and alarms — a shakedown, not a scuffle, and one that pulled Depew units to the Pavilion at close to eleven o'clock.

Cattaraugus County · Monroe & Washington · Assault

A Man With a Gash to the Stomach Outside a Village Taqueria Draws a Trauma Response

The overnight assault at Monroe and Washington put a trauma team on the ground in a small Cattaraugus County village.

Overnight at 12:21 AM, Cattaraugus County sheriff's deputies and fire crews were sent to the corner of Monroe and Washington, in front of a taqueria, for a man with a gash wound to the stomach. The injury was described as assault-related, with police on location and an ALS trauma response dispatched.

A stabbing-style assault serious enough to launch a trauma response is rare-for-the-place in a small Cattaraugus County village, where the overnight wires more often carry lift assists and welfare checks. The response ran roughly twelve minutes before crews cleared.

Amherst · Meyer Road · Domestic Violence

Domestic at Boulevard Tower Apartments: A Passerby Reports a Man Slamming a Woman to the Ground

Amherst police were flagged to the front entrance at 90 Meyer Road as the pair vanished into the evening.

Yesterday at 6:53 PM, Amherst police dispatch sent a car to the Boulevard Tower Apartments at 90 Meyer Road after a passerby reported watching a male slam a female onto the ground at the front entrance. "Complainant saw a male slam a female onto the ground," the dispatcher said, routing a unit toward the building.

By the time officers were closing in, the complainant — a passerby who had called from someone else's phone — could no longer see the pair or say where they went. Dispatch put out a look-out for a tall male dressed all in black and a shorter female, but with no callback number and the couple gone from view, the responding car was left working from a fading description.

Buffalo · Roosevelt Park · Juvenile Swarm

Roughly 200 Juveniles Swarm a School Area, Checking Cars — Then an Alarm Sounds

Buffalo police pulled cars off other calls as a crowd near the school scattered and an audible alarm went off.

Yesterday at 10:11 PM, Buffalo police diverted units to a school area where dispatch reported roughly 200 juveniles gathered out front, some of them checking cars. "There's going to be 200 juveniles in front of the school. Some are going to be checking cars," a supervisor said, sending additional cars to assist.

Within a couple of minutes the crowd began to break up — but not before an audible alarm sounded at the school. "The juveniles are dispersing now, but there is an audible alarm at the school. They might have started breaking in," an officer radioed. The same stretch saw the district combining reports of shots fired that turned out to be fireworks, a marker of how chaotic the block had become.

Amherst · Overnight Pursuit

A Dark-Running VW Tiguan Leads Amherst Police on an Overnight Chase That Ends at Cleveland

Officers pursued a black Volkswagen driving with its lights off before the chase was terminated.

Early this morning at 4:29 AM, Amherst police pursued a black Volkswagen Tiguan traveling westbound through the Hidden Ridge area with its lights off. The vehicle ran dark as officers tried to close, a detail that drove the pursuit before it was called off.

The chase was terminated at Cleveland. A dark-running vehicle fleeing at that hour is the kind of overnight run that stands out on the quieter Amherst wires, where most pre-dawn traffic is medical alarms and noise complaints.

Southtowns · Hamburg

Owner Already Working the Phones While the Building's Still Smoking

Crews barely staged before the paperwork was underway.

Yesterday afternoon, as Hamburg fire crews worked a building fire with structural concerns, dispatch relayed a status update that read more like an insurance adjuster's memo than an emergency: "Building owner is on location. He is contacting his insurance and disaster relief." Code enforcement was notified. Nobody, it seems, was going to let a little fire get ahead of the paperwork.

Outer Counties · Cattaraugus

Have Medic, Will Travel: A Fly-Car Horse-Trade on Live Radio

A dispatcher brokers apparatus and paramedics in real time.

Yesterday evening the Cattaraugus County fire net turned into a quick swap meet for medics. "If I send a fly car your way with a medic on it, can you run your rig?" the dispatcher offered. "Copy that. I'll send EG-10 your way with a pair of medics." In rural WNY, where the nearest paramedic can be a long way off, staffing a call sometimes means bartering crews on the fly — literally.

Williamsville · Amherst

Two Words for a Clean Sweep

Amherst Fire's editorial review of an all-clear.

Yesterday at 6:23 PM, an Amherst fire crew came back from sweeping a third floor with the good news that they'd turned up nobody in distress. "Aerosol 9, C3, we did a sweep for the third floor and came up negative with anybody," the crew reported. Dispatch's blunt, two-word verdict on the result — "Good [expletive]!" — was the most enthusiastic acknowledgment on the wires all night.

Cheektowaga · Overnight Patrol

Officer Down (to Rescue a Husky) at Two in the Morning

A loose dog gets a squad-car escort to a backyard.

Overnight at 1:59 AM, a Cheektowaga officer spotted a Husky wandering with a car near it and pumped the brakes on patrol. "It's just a Husky's got a car on it, but I'm trying to stop to see if it'll let me check on it," the officer radioed. A couple of minutes later, mission accomplished: "I was able to get it into the backyard of 112 Nagel." No arrests, one very good boy relocated to safety.

Outer Counties · Cattaraugus

Property Dispute? Nope. Just the Amish Burning Hay.

A deputy defuses a call that never needed a fire truck.

Yesterday afternoon a call came into the Cattaraugus County sheriff as a property dispute out on Route 16 — the sort of thing that can spin up a fire response fast. The resolution was distinctly rural: "Amish are burning some hay, it's controlled, no need for fire." A confirmed, controlled hay burn, no fire needed, and one deputy who knew the difference before anyone rolled a rig.

Amherst · Maple Road

Grandmother's ER Wait Turns Into Search for Missing Amherst Teen After Mushroom Trip

At 1:32 AM, Amherst police dispatch put out an attempt-to-locate at Suburban Hospital, 1540 Maple Road, after a caller's 14-year-old grandson swallowed mushrooms for the first time and could barely walk. She had driven him in to get checked out, but when she parked the car and went back inside, he was “gone”. Units were given a description — a white male, 5'7", in a gray hooded sweatshirt and shorts — with no direction of travel, and were told the grandmother would wait outside the ER entrance for word.

Buffalo · Schiller Street

Text-911 Threats Escalate to Multiple-Armed-Persons Call on Buffalo's Schiller Street

Just after 5 AM, Buffalo police were sent to 125 Schiller Street after someone texted 911 reporting people making threats. Dispatch updated the call within minutes, relaying that the texter said the confrontation had turned physical and a handgun had been spotted, then updating it again to “multiple people with guns”. Officers were given a fuller description — a masked man and masked woman, both described as Black — as cars converged on the block. As the picture began to clear, a supervisor identified on the radio as Charlie 530 told dispatch to slow the responding units down and asked that the call be reclassified; no arrest or resolution was reported on the air before the channel moved on.

Buffalo · Glenwood Avenue

Nail Used as Weapon in Glenwood Avenue Stabbing, Suspect Taken Into Custody

Yesterday at 9:01 PM, Buffalo police dispatch sent cars to 32 Glenwood Avenue for a stabbing described on the radio as “a nail stab on the left hand, finger and the right arm”. Within two minutes, officers radioed that they were taking an individual into custody at the scene and told dispatch they'd be out of service processing the arrest for a while; a formal charge was not stated on the air.

Buffalo · Seminole Avenue

Buffalo Police Rush to Mob Assault on Seminole Avenue After Report of Gun Threat

Yesterday at 6:00 PM, Buffalo police dispatch sent a car to 7 Heller Avenue[*] on a fight call. Two minutes later, an update placed the trouble on Seminole Avenue, describing a report of a group of about a dozen people outside “trying to jump the mother” — the woman's own mother swinging a bat, her brother struck, and people at the scene making threats, with one person “stating they have a gun”. Multiple patrol cars, freed up from other calls, cleared to respond as the description came in. Minutes later, a responding unit reported that several juveniles had run south on South Crossman Avenue from the fight and thrown rocks through the windows of a house back at 7 Heller Avenue[*].

Buffalo · Districts C & E

Dispute Over a Car Turns Into Fistfight and Ramming on Buffalo's East Side, One in Custody

Yesterday at 8:17 PM, Buffalo police dispatch sent cars to a report of a fight, initially described as a dispute over a car. Within a minute, dispatch upgraded the call: three to four people were now physically fighting, one person was bleeding, and one man was “ramming a car into another car”. A supervisor asked to be made primary on what was now logged as an assault in progress, with the case status changed to report pending. Officers reported one person in custody minutes later.

Buffalo · Englewood Avenue

Buffalo Police Break Up "Another" Party on Englewood Avenue, Then Call for Backup at a Second

Just after midnight, a UB Campus Police officer driving down Englewood Avenue radioed in that Buffalo police were breaking up “another party at 102 Englewood”, though officers said they didn't need campus assistance beyond documentation. About fifteen minutes later, Buffalo police called UB dispatch again, this time requesting a unit at 99 Englewood Avenue for another party a few doors down; UB units said they would head over as well.

Cheektowaga · Genesee Street

Woman Accused of Drinking From Liquor Bottle Confronted After U-Haul Crash Near Cheektowaga McDonald's

Yesterday at 4:34 PM, Cheektowaga police were dispatched to a crash on eastbound Kensington at Union Road, where a U-Haul truck had struck another vehicle before pulling into a nearby McDonald's — the one on Genesee Street across from the airport. The complainant told dispatch they believed the U-Haul driver was intoxicated and said they were now trying to confront the driver in the parking lot. A dispatcher relayed that the U-Haul had also struck the McDonald's drive-thru sign. Minutes later, dispatch added that the driver was “drinking right out of a liquor bottle”.

Boston · Boston State Road

Car Slams Into Boston Tim Hortons, Driver Taken to Mercy

Yesterday at 3:04 PM, Hamburg fire dispatch sent Boston's Emergency Squad to the Tim Hortons at 7072 Boston State Road, between Meadow Drive and Route 219, for a vehicle that had gone into the building with unknown injuries; a full ambulance crew was requested. Dispatch reported the car was back out of the building within about a minute, still with injuries unknown, and North Boston Engine 9 was added to the response. Hamburg Fire Town Ambulance 801 ultimately transported one patient to Mercy.

Hamburg · McKinley Mall

Russian-Speaking Man in Prius Circles, Films Hamburg Trampoline Park for Third Straight Day

Yesterday at 6:12 PM, Hamburg police dispatch sent a unit to Epic Bounce USA at 3701 McKinley Parkway, near the McKinley Mall, to speak with employee Peter Boone about a man who speaks Russian and has been “circling and filming the area” for three straight days, driving a silver or blue car, possibly a Toyota Prius. The subject wasn't on scene when officers arrived, but dispatch passed along a partial plate — Hotel Hotel, 1-4-7-9 — for the vehicle.

Eden · Cherry Lane

Eden Squad Sent Back to Same Cherry Lane Address for Second Chest-Pain Call

At 2:05 AM, Hamburg fire dispatch sent Eden Emergency Squad to 3156 Cherry Lane, between Cobblestone Court and Weller Drive, for a man in his 40s with chest pain, requesting a paramedic response with a full crew. Dispatch specified on the air that this was the second call for Eden Emergency Squad to the address, though the nature or timing of the earlier run was not detailed over the radio.