Grand Island · Niagara River · Water Search

Coast Guard, Sheriff, and Parks Police Launch an Extended Niagara River Search for a Missing Jet Skier

A young woman on a green jet ski was last seen more than 90 minutes before the alarm, launching from the Canadian side, touching off a multi-agency water search in the fading light yesterday evening.

Yesterday just before 7:00 PM, radio traffic built into a full water search on the Niagara River near Navy Island for a 20- or 21-year-old woman on a green jet ski, wearing a pink shirt and a life jacket. She had last been seen more than 90 minutes earlier after launching from the Canadian side, and the delay put the search behind from the start.

The Coast Guard, Erie County sheriff, Parks Police, and mutual-aid fire and marine crews were pulled into the effort, which spread through the Tonawanda and Erie Canal area, Gateway Harbor, and the water near the Dockside Bar and marina. Grand Island marine units staged and worked the canal, and by later transmissions crews were still searching with no jet ski or person located.

Buffalo · Furman Boulevard · Water Rescue

A Boat Sinks Off the Buffalo Waterfront Overnight, With Four Aboard Rescued by the Coast Guard

The call came in early this morning as a water rescue with one passenger initially missing and multiple injuries, near the same stretch of the outer harbor where crews had worked a call the day before.

Early this morning at 12:37 AM, Buffalo police put out a water rescue near 1111 Furman, with the Coast Guard notified, four total passengers aboard, one initially reported missing, and multiple injuries. Officers heading down asked dispatch to pin the best location possible as they mapped the scene to the area of 505 Furman, west of the Skyway near the state park, where two boats — one white — were reported on the water.

As units reached the shoreline the missing passenger was accounted for, and the incident resolved with all four occupants rescued by the Coast Guard and only minor injuries reported. Dispatch noted the location sat just north of where crews had worked a call the day before, and officers warned each other coming in that a car meetup had left a crowd of kids in the street nearby.

Cattaraugus County · Domestic · BOLO

An Armed Man Flees a Domestic Stabbing Attempt in Cattaraugus County, Drawing a BOLO for a Rural Pickup

Deputies reported the male fleeing in a black Silverado with a firearm after a woman was left with a sliced hand from a stabbing attempt yesterday evening.

Yesterday around 8:20 PM, Cattaraugus County sheriff's deputies were sent to 9736 McKinstry Road for a domestic violence call in which a man fled in a black Silverado with a firearm. The woman on scene was left injured — a sliced hand from what was described on the air as a stabbing attempt — and deputies broadcast that the male was heading toward the Birch and Chafee area.

Fire and EMS followed to evaluate the woman for a rib injury tied to the assault, while a BOLO went out for the fleeing pickup across the rural county. The run held the sheriff's traffic for the better part of the evening as units worked to locate the armed subject.

Williamsville · Princeton Avenue · Disturbance

A Princeton Avenue Party Spirals Into Screaming, an Assault, and a Ten-Person Fight in Amherst

Officers worked a cluster of calls up and down the same block yesterday evening — a domestic with active screaming, a group brawl, and a physical assault involving a baby's father.

Yesterday at 7:25 PM, Amherst police radioed a domestic at 192 Princeton, with an officer reporting active screaming audible from outside as he headed over. The traffic tied it into a run of trouble already unfolding along the block, where a party location at 195 Princeton had drawn an earlier altercation report.

Within minutes the block produced a group altercation at 159 Princeton — dispatch putting about ten people on scene with two fighting and no weapons — and the 192 Princeton call escalated to a reported physical assault involving a baby's father, a female screaming inside. Officers moved between the addresses as the party unwound, treating the cluster as one spreading disturbance rather than separate calls.

Amherst · Sheridan Drive · Medical

An Elderly Sheridan Drive Woman Found Unconscious Amid Confusing Reports of a Possible Stabbing

Multiple 911 calls came in yesterday evening for an 88-year-old woman down and not breathing normally, with one caller adding a possible stabbing that the traffic never confirmed.

Yesterday just after 6:10 PM, Amherst Fire responded to 3175 Sheridan Drive for an 88-year-old woman reported unconscious, with units pushed in on multiple calls. The picture on the air was muddled from the start — the patient described as breathing by one report, and a possible stabbing raised by another that responders could not confirm.

The conflicting details drove a full response, with crews sorting out an elderly medical emergency from the secondhand claim of violence as they arrived. The traffic settled into a medical run, the stabbing report unsubstantiated on the record.

West Seneca · Park Lane · Child Welfare

A Disoriented Young Mother Found Naked With Her Infant in West Seneca, Child Taken Into Protective Custody

Officers found the woman confused and disoriented yesterday evening, transported her to ECMC, and placed the baby in protective custody with a CPS referral.

Yesterday evening beginning around 6:43 PM, West Seneca police worked a call at 800 Park Lane Villas, apartment 806, where a young woman was found naked, confused, and disoriented with an infant. The child was taken into protective custody and the woman transported to ECMC as officers held the scene.

The run closed with a CPS referral initiated, the traffic framing it as a mental or medical crisis rather than a criminal matter — a caretaker in distress and a baby moved to safety while she was evaluated at the hospital.

Amherst · Order Violation

A Missing Teen and Her Mother Tracked to the Thruway After a Protective-Order Violation Report

A welfare check early this morning for a young woman reported missing to her mother led officers to a gray Jetta located on I-90 amid a reported order violation.

Early this morning around 1:26 AM, Amherst police took a welfare check tied to a young woman, Olivia, reported missing after contacting her mother, with a vehicle in the driveway at the home. The call quickly widened into a protective-order matter as officers pieced together that the child was missing with her mother in violation of an order of protection.

By 1:33 AM the search had reached the Thruway, where a gray Jetta was located on I-90 near Tim Russert Park in West Seneca. The overnight run resolved with the vehicle found and the parties accounted for on the highway.

Town of Tonawanda · Sheridan Park

Two Days in the Ductwork: Tonawanda Crew Frees a Cat Wedged in an Air-Return Vent

A homeowner near Sheridan Drive and Elmview had been unable to reach the trapped cat for two days before the firehouse got the call.

Yesterday at 3:45 PM, Tonawanda Town Fire took a call unlike its usual alarm churn: a homeowner near Sheridan Drive and Elmview reported their cat stuck in an air-return vent — and had been unable to get the animal out for two days. Crews were toned to the Maple View area for the rescue.

The digest confirms the happy ending a transmission or two later: the cat was rescued from the ductwork at 140 Maple View. Two days in the vents, and the fire service, as ever, got it done.

Thruway · Median Rescue

A Trooper Gets Dispatched to Spring a 50-Pound Dog From the Thruway Median

Fifty pounds, black with white spots, and stuck in the grass between the lanes at dawn.

At 6:05 AM, amid the routine dawn ritual of security checks and plate logging, Thruway dispatch sent a unit on a decidedly non-routine errand: a black dog with white spots, about 50 pounds, reported stuck in the median near mile 469 westbound.

It was the second animal on the wire in the same overnight window — after the ductwork cat — and a reminder that between the DWIs and the erratic operators, the state's highway crews spend a fair share of their shift as the region's roadside veterinarians.

Buffalo · BuffaloLimo

The Limo Dispatcher Who Called In a Street Race Between Fares

A rare civilian voice on the wire, phoning it in mid-shift with the offhand ease of a man reading the traffic.

At 2:39 AM, in the middle of a routine dispatch exchange about the next report, a BuffaloLimo voice broke off to note something out the window: while they were over there, there was some vehicle racing.

It is the kind of moment the wires rarely give up — not a cop or a firefighter but a working driver, folding a street race into his running commentary as casually as a fare update, then getting back to business.

Salamanca · Welfare Check

A Despondent Man, Found Reading His Bible, Gently Left to His Evening

A welfare check that ended not with a transport but with a man told he could carry on reading and be on his way.

Yesterday evening around 9:05 PM, a Salamanca welfare check resolved about as quietly as they come. The officer's disposition, relayed on the air, was that the man would continue to read his Bible for a little bit and then be on his way.

No transport, no escalation — just a check that ended with a person left in peace, a small mercy on a night the wires otherwise spent chasing water rescues and fights.

Hamburg · Detox

Neil's Two-Day Detox Odyssey: Too Drunk to Get In, Drunk Again to Try Once More

The wire's most human loop of the night, relayed in a single weary dispatch line.

Yesterday at 6:22 PM, a Hamburg PD transmission captured a whole small tragedy in three sentences: Neil had tried to go to detox the day before but was too drunk to get in, so they turned him away. He would like to go back today — however, he is drunk again today.

It is the kind of catch-22 the scanner records without comment, a man circling the same door two days running, and the exhaustion of the loop plain in the dispatcher's flat retelling.

Town of Tonawanda · Two Mile Creek

Woman in Crisis Located Along Two Mile Creek Shoreline After Phone-Tracking Search

Yesterday just after 10:53 PM, Tonawanda Police Dispatch put out a mental-health alert after multiple callers reported a woman texting that she was “going to kill herself”; her phone's location-sharing app mapped her near River Road and Two Mile Creek, though dispatch noted she does not live in the Town of Tonawanda.

Officers found her red Chevy Traverse unoccupied nearby — the plate returning to a woman dispatch identified as Yolanda Duplantis — before a unit found her walking the shoreline trails near Isleview and reported “I'm talking to her right now” as more cars converged to check on her welfare.

Buffalo · Missing Child

3-Year-Old Reported Missing Overnight After Never Coming Home

Yesterday evening, at 8:18 PM, Buffalo Police radio broadcast a missing-person alert for a three-year-old child last seen playing outside who never returned home, prompting an overnight search by patrol units.

No further updates on the child's whereabouts were confirmed in the traffic reviewed for this window.

Buffalo · Theodore Street

Auto Fire Spreads to Two Buildings on Theodore Street, Displacing Two

Just after 5:09 AM, Buffalo Fire radio reported a car fully involved between 40 and 38 Theodore Street, with the fire spreading into both structures; a chief on scene confirmed $50,000 in damage to 40 Theodore Street and another $50,000 to 38 Theodore Street, with no damage to contents and the cause under investigation.

Red Cross assistance was requested for two displaced adults, and crews were still working the scene when one company radioed that “we can't get this hydrant to shut down”.

Buffalo · Wymer Street

Stabbing Victim Found With Multiple Wounds on Wymer Street

Yesterday evening, just before 6:53 PM, Buffalo Police radio reported a stabbing victim found on Wymer Street suffering multiple wounds, sending three units to the scene.

No further details on the victim's condition or a suspect were confirmed in the traffic reviewed for this window.

Buffalo · Broadway

Masked, Armed Man Flees Broadway Gas Station, Description Broadcast Citywide

Yesterday evening at 8:21 PM, Buffalo Police radio broadcast a citywide description of a masked man reported armed with a gun who fled a gas station on Broadway, with units checking the surrounding area.

Buffalo · Southampton & Jefferson

Four Shots Reported Near Southampton and Jefferson Overnight

Overnight, just after 12:29 AM, Buffalo Police radio sent cars to the area of Southampton Street and Jefferson Avenue after a caller reported “hearing four shots fired”, with the sound seeming to come from that corner.

No injuries, suspects, or arrests were mentioned in the traffic reviewed for this window.

Niagara County · Sleeper Road

Multi-Vehicle Crash at Sleeper and Boone Sends Several to Hospitals

Yesterday afternoon, shortly after 3:05 PM, Niagara County Fire radio reported a multi-vehicle crash with multiple people injured at the intersection of Sleeper Road and Boone Road, drawing a sustained advanced life support-priority response from county fire and EMS units.

Units remained on scene coordinating the multi-patient response past 3:36 PM, according to the radio traffic reviewed for this window.

Salamanca · Resisting Arrest

Salamanca Officer Needs Backup, Then EMS, After Woman Resists Arrest

Yesterday just after 3:12 PM, Salamanca Police radio reported an officer struggling to take a woman into custody along Austin-McCormick's Way, with a family member on scene and unhappy about the encounter; the officer radioed “I can't get her in the car, I'm going to need another unit” as a second unit was sent to help.

A juvenile also rode along once the woman was in the patrol vehicle, and minutes later dispatch relayed that she was complaining of “trouble breathing”, prompting a request for EMS to stand by at the police department.