Southern Tier · I-86 · Pursuit

A Female Driver Leads a Four-Agency Pursuit Westbound on I-86, Deputies Waiting at the County Line

A vehicle pursuit ran west through the Cold Spring area, drawing in Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Wyoming, and Salamanca units.

Yesterday beginning around 3:00 PM, a multi-agency vehicle pursuit ran westbound along the Route 19 / I-86 corridor near the Cold Spring area, with a female driver at the wheel, according to the radio traffic. Deputies from Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Wyoming, and Salamanca coordinated across roughly forty minutes, positioning units at the county line to head the vehicle off.

The pursuit crossed jurisdictions as agencies handed off responsibility along the interstate. The traffic did not state how or where the chase ended, or whether the driver was taken into custody.

Dunkirk · Front Street · Guns Displayed

Occupants of Two Vehicles Wave Firearms Toward Houses on Dunkirk's Front Street

Callers reported people leaning out of a gray pickup and a white Hyundai, guns pointed at homes on Front Street.

Yesterday at about 9:40 PM, Dunkirk police responded to 29 Front Street after reports that multiple occupants of two vehicles — a gray pickup truck and a white Hyundai Elantra — were displaying firearms out the windows toward houses, according to the radio traffic.

The call was one of several instances of open gun display across the region overnight. The traffic did not indicate whether the vehicles were located or anyone was taken into custody.

Cheektowaga · Town Park · Guns Displayed

Two Men Brandish Handguns at Cheektowaga Town Park, Flee in a Red Genesis and a White Van

Armed individuals displayed handguns and threatened juveniles during a car-meet incident, then fled in three vehicles.

Yesterday at about 8:32 PM, Cheektowaga police were called to Cheektowaga Town Park after two armed individuals displayed handguns and threatened juveniles during a car-meet gathering, according to the radio traffic. The subjects fled in a red Genesis and a white van, with a Genesis plate broadcast as MVH3466; a follow-up put the count at three vehicles leaving southwest.

The park incident and the Dunkirk gun call, hours apart, made for an unusually pointed overnight run of firearms displays. The traffic did not state whether anyone was located or arrested.

Amherst · Griner Road · Shots Fired

Shots Reported Fired in Fields Behind a Griner Road Home as Amherst Investigates an Armed-Subject Threat

A caller reported gunfire in the fields behind a residence and a subject with a possible gun, drawing an Amherst police investigation.

Yesterday at about 3:40 PM, Amherst police responded to 10580 Griner Road after a caller reported shots fired in the fields behind the residence and a threat involving a subject with a possible gun, according to the radio traffic. A person was reported on scene as police were dispatched.

The investigation continued on the air. The traffic did not confirm the source of the gunfire or the outcome of the threat assessment.

Buffalo · Elmwood / Hertel · Possible Abduction

A Woman Heard Screaming 'Help Me' From a Speeding Honda Sparks a Possible-Kidnapping Search Near Elmwood and Hertel

Two callers reported a female screaming for help in a navy blue Honda that sped off toward Hertel, sending Buffalo officers scrambling.

Yesterday at about 6:54 PM, a possible-kidnapping call came in near Elmwood and Hinman in Buffalo: a Honda seen speeding out of a parking lot with a female inside “was screaming help me”, unable to catch the plate, last seen headed toward Hertel, according to the radio traffic.

The vehicle was described as a navy blue Honda, and a second caller reported the same thing minutes later — a Honda headed toward Hertel. The camera room was pulled in to check downtown-area cameras as multiple units — 466, 410 and 411 among them — put themselves out on the kidnapping. The traffic did not state whether the car or the woman was located.

Buffalo · Kensington / Bailey · Missing Adult

A Missing 83-Year-Old With Dementia Triggers a Plate-Reader Hit at Kensington and Bailey

Buffalo police searched for an elderly woman driving a gray Chevy pickup after a license-plate camera pinged her westbound.

Yesterday at about 3:26 PM, Buffalo police broadcast a lookout for a missing vulnerable adult — an 83-year-old woman with dementia last driving a gray Chevy pickup, plate King Robert Union 5104, according to the radio traffic. A license-plate-reader hit placed the vehicle westbound near Kensington and Bailey at 3:25 PM.

Districts coordinated the search across the East Side. The traffic did not state whether the woman was found. The window carried a run of missing-persons calls, from a teen who never came home to two young children briefly unaccounted for on Humboldt.

Tonawanda · Bathroom Forensics

Roll Call: Tonawanda Dispatcher Delivers the Night's Most Precise Measurement

Yesterday at 5:39 PM, amid a channel full of chest pains and lift assists, a Tonawanda dispatcher paused to enter a figure into the record with the flat certainty of a surveyor: “there's about 65 feet of toilet paper in the bathroom”. No motive, no suspect, no injuries — just a number, offered up and left to hang there.

Hamburg · The Crayon Standoff

Color Me Furious: A Missing-Crayons Dispute Becomes a Refusal-to-Leave Call

Yesterday at 5:48 PM, Hamburg police fielded one of the season's more colorful complaints: a woman turned up to retrieve her crayons, “They can't find her crayons and now she's refusing to leave”. The staff couldn't produce the crayons; the woman would not go. And so a box of wax became a police matter.

Cattaraugus · RV Fire

Fingers Crossed and Then Some: A Dispatcher's Honest Answer on a Burning RV

Yesterday at 6:07 PM, with an RV burning next to a residence on Witch Hollow Road, a unit posed the only question that mattered — was everyone out? The Cattaraugus dispatcher's reply skipped the usual radio decorum entirely: “I certainly fuckin' hope so”. Gallows optimism, keyed live, and about as human as the wire gets.

Cheektowaga · Medic Mix-Up

'Stop Game': Cheektowaga Fire's Crossed Wires End in an On-Air Scolding

Yesterday at 5:03 PM, a tangle over which medic unit was getting which call played out on the Cheektowaga fire channel and ended, as these things do, with a short, exasperated sign-off: “stop game”. Two words to reset the board and get everyone back on the same page.

Lackawanna · Lost and Found

Wallet in the Alarm Room: A Lieutenant's Courtesy Call Back

Yesterday at 5:07 PM, a Lackawanna crew keyed up over something no dispatch code covers: “Lieutenant, we have a wallet here in the alarm room”. The polite, procedural offer — do you want to return for that? — turned a fire alarm's aftermath into a lost-and-found errand, handled with the gravity of any other call.

Amherst · UB North Campus

Masked Pair Try to Break Into Car in UB's Richmond A Lot

Just before 12:40 AM, a UB Campus Police unit relayed a caller's report that two masked men were trying to break into a car in the Richmond A lot; the caller said he was trailing the vehicle from a distance and, based on the radio traffic, appears to have asked officers not to move in until they arrived.

Officers set up on the suspect vehicle, described as a white Honda bearing a plate read out as Henry-Mary-Nora 9943, and a second patrol was sent to assist as the call continued.

Tonawanda · Grand Island Bridge

Man Walks Toward the River Under Grand Island Bridge Amid Self-Harm Threats

Just after 4:23 PM yesterday, Tonawanda police dispatch sent officers cold to River Road near the Grand Island Bridge after a woman called seeking help for her boyfriend, saying he had made statements about harming himself and was walking toward the water.

Units were told to look for a 29-year-old Black male in a red tracksuit, with the woman following him on foot; dispatch soon reported the pair had gone “all the way onto the grass”, and a supervisor used Rapid SOS technology to narrow down their location near the river, just off the I-190 on-ramp.

Buffalo · Bailey Avenue Crash

Vehicle Slams Into Building at Bailey and Andover, Four Hurt Including Two Officers

Yesterday just after 9:51 PM, Buffalo Fire dispatch sent a heavy multi-company response — including the Collapse Team — to Bailey Avenue and Andover after a report that a vehicle had gone into a building; dispatch quickly added that a police cruiser had also been involved and had been “T-boned”.

On scene, a company officer reported no structural damage and the Collapse Team was released, while dispatch radioed for four ambulances to handle “four patients total, two police officers”.

Buffalo · South Park Avenue Fire Response

Buffalo Fire Ladder Company Answers Apartment Fire Call Near South Park, Buffalo River

Yesterday at 9:22 PM, Buffalo Fire Dispatch began routing companies toward an apartment building near South Park Avenue and the Buffalo River, with a company reporting on location at apartment 4 about three minutes later.

Dispatch confirmed Ladder 5 was assigned to the scene after asking crews for the building's structure type; the multi-unit response and the ladder company's dispatch suggest an active fire call, though the extent of any fire was not detailed on the air.

Buffalo · Hewitt Avenue Missing Juvenile

Buffalo Police Seek Missing 15-Year-Old Terrell Grant

Yesterday at 6:46 PM, a woman at 433 Hewitt Avenue told Buffalo police dispatch that her 15-year-old son, identified on the radio as Terrell Grant, never came home the previous night.

She said she wasn't sure where he was, but that he had posted to Instagram roughly 22 hours earlier and that, in her words, it was “an ongoing issue”.

Buffalo · South Elmwood Crisis Call

Buffalo Police Rush to South Elmwood Address After Caller Says He's Suicidal and Homicidal

Yesterday at 11:20 PM, Buffalo police dispatch sent a car to 206 South Elmwood Avenue[*] on a report of a suicide attempt, after a male caller told dispatchers he was “suicidal and homicidal” and had already taken pills of an unknown kind.

Dispatch asked for a second unit to back up the responding car, and radio traffic minutes later noted a callback number for the address was not reachable; the outcome of the check was not stated on the air.

Buffalo · Fillmore Avenue Shooting Report

Reported Fillmore Avenue Shooting Turns Out to Be BB Gun Wound

Just before 3:44 AM, Buffalo police dispatch relayed a report of a shooting at 811 Fillmore Avenue, with the initial call describing the victim as “shot in the back”; officers recovered one gun on scene and reported a black Jeep Grand Cherokee fleeing north on Fillmore Avenue toward Sycamore Street.

Units tracked the SUV south on Sherman Street and east onto Sycamore before losing it, but by 3:49 AM a responding officer radioed that there had been no gunshot wound at all — the victim, he said, “definitely wasn't shot by a real gun”.

Southtowns · Trevett Road Crash

Motorcycle-Versus-Deer Crash on Trevett Road Draws Multi-Company Fire Response

Yesterday at 7:09 PM, Springville Fire Control dispatched Morton's Corners and East Concord fire companies to a private motorcycle-versus-deer crash of unknown injury in the area of 10499 Trevett Road, asking Erie County Sheriff's dispatchers to help pin down a better location near Route 219.

Mercy Medic 94 got underway with a 23-minute ETA, and Springville's own command unit began responding as well; the assisting East Concord company was called back into service to help as the call developed. Command told the assist unit to “we'll start headed that way, we have a 23 minute ETA”.

Hamburg · Missing Teen Report

Hamburg Teen Reported Missing Overnight After Dispute With Mother

Yesterday at 9:35 PM, Hamburg police dispatch reported that a 17-year-old girl was on her way to the police station to stay with a friend for the night, after dispatch said she had been “gone for the night”; her mother, dispatch added, was also heading to the station to speak with patrol.

A dispatcher characterized it as a disagreement between mother and daughter that sent both of them to the station, and patrol units in the area were told to check the girl's welfare if located, with one note that she appeared to be “under the influence”; the outcome was not stated on the air.

Wyoming County · Arcade Line Shooting Complaint

Neighbor Reports People Shooting Across Property Line Near Arcade Village Line

Yesterday at 3:03 PM, Wyoming County dispatch sent a deputy to 1794 Route 39 in the Town of Arcade, near the Arcade Village Line and Central Road, after a neighbor identified on dispatch as John Harris reported that people at the property next door were “shooting across his property line”.

Dispatch added that Harris was “currently sitting up in a field to see them doing it”, and told the responding deputy she would call again once he was on his way.