Dunkirk · Chadwick Bay · Infant Cardiac Arrest

Crews Rush a Five-Month-Old in Cardiac Arrest at a Dunkirk Apartment Complex Overnight, CPR in Progress

East Dunkirk, Fredonia and a county ambulance all converged on Chadwick Bay Apartments in the small hours.

At 12:54 AM, Chautauqua County dispatch sent fire and EMS racing to Chadwick Bay Apartments off Route 5 for a five-month-old child who was not breathing, with CPR in progress, according to the radio traffic. The call drew East Dunkirk, Fredonia Ambulance 12 and county units in a converging response.

The traffic reflected the urgency of a working pediatric arrest, with crews committed to the apartment through the opening minutes. The scanner did not broadcast an outcome before the thread went quiet.

Amherst · Meyer Road · Child Struck by Bat

Toddler Left Semi-Responsive With Facial Injuries After Being Struck by a Bat at an Amherst Little League Field

The two-year-old was hurt at the Mellot Little League complex off Meyer Road, drawing a priority EMS response.

Yesterday at 6:37 PM, Amherst Fire was dispatched to the Mellot Little League field at 377 Meyer Road for a two-year-old boy described on the air as semi-responsive with facial injuries after being struck by a baseball bat, according to the radio traffic.

The young age of the patient and the head-area injury drove a priority response to the ballfield. The scanner did not broadcast a condition update before the thread went quiet.

Buffalo · Fillmore Avenue · Working Fire

A Vacant, Dangerous Fillmore Avenue Building Burns Overnight, Forcing Crews Into Defensive Operations

The boarded-up wood-frame at Fillmore and Clinton was showing fire on arrival; companies knocked down the bulk from outside.

At 3:22 AM, Buffalo Fire went to work at 961 Fillmore Avenue, at the corner of Clinton, for a structure fire in a boarded-up, vacant-dangerous building — a one-and-a-half-story wood frame with exterior fire showing, according to the radio traffic.

Because of the building's condition, command moved crews to defensive operations rather than committing them inside, and companies reported the bulk of the fire knocked down. A smoke odor investigation about an hour later at a hospital campus a few blocks away was traced back toward the Fillmore and Clinton fire. No injuries were broadcast during the window.

Amherst · Princeton / Capen · Child Struck

Teen on a Scooter Struck by a Car at Princeton and Capen, Flown to Children's Hospital With Facial Injuries

The child was breathing at dispatch; Twin City and Eggert Road units responded as a trauma call.

Yesterday at 4:13 PM, Amherst police and fire responded to a teenager on a scooter struck by a car at Princeton and Capen, according to the radio traffic. Dispatch reported the patient was breathing at the time of the call, with a trauma alert and a 10-51 initiated.

Twin City and Eggert Road units handled the response, with the teenager treated for facial injuries from the scooter-car strike. By 4:23 PM the child had been transported to Children's Hospital, according to the radio traffic. No further condition was broadcast before the thread went quiet.

Hamburg · Hart Road · Pediatric Cardiac Arrest

Seven-Year-Old Girl Goes Into Cardiac Arrest After a Fall at an Eden Heights Facility

What began as a fall became a working arrest, with crews staging and a second ambulance called in.

Yesterday at 10:15 PM, Hamburg Fire dispatch upgraded a call at Eden Heights, 4071 Hart Road, Room 107, where a seven-year-old girl had originally fallen and gone unconscious and was now being worked as a cardiac arrest, according to the radio traffic. Dispatch called for additional crew members on scene.

The response pulled in East Eden units, which staged outside Eden Heights as crews moved in. While that call was running, Hamburg dispatch also toned out a motorcycle crash with an unconscious male rider at Old Lakeshore and Lakeview Road — a second trauma run layered onto an already stretched hour. The scanner did not broadcast an outcome for the child before the thread went quiet.

Cattaraugus County · Felton Hill Road · Serious MVA

Serious One-Car Crash With a Possible Ejection on Felton Hill Road Draws a Mercy Flight Launch, Then a Stand-Down

Two were reported hurt and a helicopter was requested before being called off, with serious injuries still reported on scene.

Yesterday at 6:15 PM, Cattaraugus County fire and the sheriff's office responded to a one-car crash on Felton Hill Road with two people injured, including a possible ejection, according to the radio traffic. Mercy Flight was requested as crews sized up the wreck.

The helicopter was subsequently stood down, though serious injuries were still being reported on scene. The call ran as a sustained multi-agency response along the rural corridor. The scanner did not broadcast patient dispositions before the thread went quiet.

West Seneca · Juvenile Roundup · Long Night

Three Kids, Two Parents and One Who Can't Spell His Mom's Last Name

A West Seneca officer meets the night's great bureaucratic adversary: a child who doesn't know his own mother's phone number.

Yesterday at 8:42 PM, West Seneca officers had three juveniles detained and set about the solemn ritual of logging starting mileage for the trip back to 1250 — two males in one car, one female in another, down to the odometer.

The paperwork, though, met its match. At 8:45 PM an officer radioed in that two of the three parents were on the way — but the catch, delivered with the flat resignation of a man staring down hours of forms, was that “the one doesn't know how to spell his mom's last name or her phone number so we're gonna figure that out when we get back”. His verdict on the evening ahead landed like a benediction: “It's gonna be a long night”.

Wyoming County · Route 246 · Cow on the Lam

The Great Emmerly Farm Cow Caper Ends With a Gate and a Gentle Return

A deputy finds a cow standing out front at 1 a.m., and the whole thing resolves exactly as a cow thing should.

Overnight, at 12:55 AM, a Wyoming County deputy radioed that he was out at the old Emmerly Farm on Route 246, where there was “a cow out standing out front” — and could someone please try to get hold of a Danny Swears to come sort it out.

The bovine standoff was brief and bloodless. By 1:01 AM the deputy reported the matter closed with rural precision: “We were able to get the cow back in the barn and located the open gate”. Case, and gate, shut.

Buffalo · Roswell Park Campus · Skunk

Buffalo Fire Solves a Pre-Dawn Odor Mystery: Calling Out a Skunk

After a boiler-room investigation and a chat with the nursing supervisor, the culprit was… nature.

Early this morning, crews worked an odor investigation around 301 Connecticut, ventilating a boiler room and summoning National Fuel before the whole thing resolved into the most Buffalo of pre-dawn verdicts.

At 4:44 AM dispatch read the disposition back in full deadpan: good intent, the odor couldn't be duplicated after a word with the nursing supervisor and maintenance, and so — “Calling out a skunk”. With that, 21 went back in service.

Cheektowaga · Rescue 911 · Did You Even Listen?

A Dispatcher's Three-Word Gut-Check Cuts Through a Long Night

Somewhere between a wrong-turn ambulance and a pedestrian call, the patience finally wore through.

Yesterday at 10:17 PM, in the middle of a grinding Cheektowaga shift, a crew keyed up on rescue 911 and got back the question every weary dispatcher eventually asks out loud: “Did you guys ever even listen to this call?”.

It was, in the end, a charitable suspicion — moments later dispatch offered that a medic unit supposedly coming from Duke Road had “Maybe they took a wrong turn”. The night rolled on, soon enough into a pedestrian-struck call at Genesee and Wheaton, but the exasperation had already landed.

Cattaraugus County · Fire 1 · Here We Go Again

Three Weary Words That Say Everything About the Night Shift

A Cattaraugus dispatcher greets a familiar tone-out the only honest way.

Yesterday at 11:14 PM, before the emergency interrupt and the unit numbers that followed, Cattaraugus Fire 1 let slip the universal anthem of the overnight tour: “Here we go again”.

No further editorializing was necessary, and none was offered — the sigh did all the work.

Amherst · Niagara Falls Boulevard

Child's 911 Call Leads Amherst Crews to Unresponsive Woman, Baby Still in Car

Yesterday at 9:57 PM, Amherst Fire Dispatch sent an ambulance to the Amherst Inn & Suites at 1951 Niagara Falls Boulevard, between Innkeepers Lane and Willow Ridge Drive, for a 39-year-old woman reported not alert — dispatchers first sent crews to Room 114, then corrected the location to a black Dodge van in the parking lot.

Moments later, a dispatcher relayed that the call had come in from a child on the phone, saying “sounds like there's a baby also in the car”. Ellicott Creek's engine was already on location, with a second Ellicott Creek unit right behind.

Amherst · Maple Road · Motel 6

Crying Teen Found Outside Amherst Motel 6 After Man Flees Room

Yesterday at 9:50 PM, Amherst police dispatch sent an officer to the Motel 6 at 4400 Maple Road after the front desk reported a teenage girl had come out of a room crying — the same room an adult man had just come from — and that the man had driven off in an unknown vehicle, direction unknown. Dispatch confirmed the girl was still on scene.

Minutes later, a passerby flagged down a unit near the Red Roof Inn to report a woman wrapped in a sheet, “blonde curly hair, screaming outside of that hotel”, roughly ten minutes earlier. Dispatch radioed that the description was likely the same woman tied to the Motel 6 call and kept the alert open while officers worked to locate her.

Tonawanda · Welfare Check

Out-of-State Brother Reports No Word From 84-Year-Old Tonawanda Sister in Over a Week

Yesterday at 3:07 PM, Tonawanda police dispatch fielded a report from a man who said he had not heard from his 84-year-old sister in over a week and believed she was experiencing dementia.

The caller told dispatch he was out of state himself and asked for a callback; no further word on a search or welfare check followed on the air during the window.

Tonawanda · St. John's

Man Accused of Violating Protective Order by Forcing His Way Into Tonawanda Apartment

Yesterday at 6:54 PM, Tonawanda police dispatch sent units to 3 St. John's, Apartment 1, after a caller said his son had shown up at the home despite an order of protection the caller had obtained against him in court that same day.

Dispatch noted the son was inside the apartment while the complainant — the father — waited outside; he had “been advised to call 911 if his son showed up”, and additional units were sent to the address to handle the call.

Clarence · Main Street

Clarence Man, 68, Found Unresponsive With Snoring Respirations Wakes Up as Crews Arrive

Yesterday at 4:19 PM, Clarence EMS crews were dispatched to 10428 Main Street for a 68-year-old man found unresponsive with snoring respirations, a presentation dispatchers flagged on the air as a possible allergic reaction.

Clarence's Engine 95 and Clarence 8 were still responding when dispatch radioed that the patient had woken up.

Buffalo · Ontario Street

U-Haul Box Truck Plows Into Buffalo Storefront on Ontario Street

Early this morning at 5:10 AM, Buffalo Fire dispatch sent a heavy auto-into-structure response — engines, ladders, a rescue company and two battalion chiefs — to Ontario Street after a U-Haul box truck crashed into the corner of a building.

Arriving companies radioed the chief that “the front end is probably 10 feet into the building”, with visible structural damage but no report of any injuries.

Investigating crews found the building's fire alarm had malfunctioned in the crash and advised the alarm company to take the system offline, with a fire watch posted until technicians could reach the building around 7 AM.

Buffalo · Custer Street

Red Pickup Plows Through Fence, Driver Stabbed, Truck Vanishes

At 8:55 PM, Buffalo police radio fielded a wave of calls near Custer Street after bystanders insisted "somebody was murdered out here," reporting that a red pickup truck had crashed behind a nearby address and that its driver was stabbed while calling for help.

Dispatch relayed that the pickup had gone through a chain-link fence — "parts of the truck, the fence is going to be down" — with a passenger in a blue jacket blamed for the stabbing before the truck fled the scene. Officers arriving a minute or two later found no truck and nothing fleeing on foot, though one unit noted “multiple people are out here stating that the driver went through the fence, beat the hell out of the passenger, and then somebody died”.

Investigators pieced together a possible description — a beat-up red Ford or Silverado, bumper damage with no visible manufacturer badge — and asked Sisters Hospital's ER to check for a matching patient while a camera room reviewed nearby footage. About a half hour later, a witness told a Buffalo officer the truck might have gone east on LaSalle Avenue toward Main Street, though it was unconfirmed whether that lead had already been broadcast.

Buffalo · Suffolk Street

Stolen Acura Pursuit Ends With Passenger Bailing Out Near Bailey Avenue

At 6:30 PM, Buffalo officers spotted a stolen blue Acura SUV — plate King Henry Nancy 2562 — southbound on Suffolk Street from Oakmont, and State Police joined in behind it on Newburgh Avenue after confirming the vehicle was reported stolen.

The chase ran south through side streets and crossed Genesee Street to North Mount Bailey, with a radio supervisor directing units to back off and kill their lights while Air 1 took over tracking the SUV at a high rate of speed near Bailey Avenue.

Near 447 Bailey, the driver let a passenger out of the moving vehicle before continuing west through East Delavan, Greiner, Humboldt Parkway and toward Ellicott Street, with State Police radioing that air support no longer had eyes on the Acura by the time the pursuit was terminated.

Buffalo · Northland Avenue

Three Buffalo Siblings Reported Missing After Not Getting Off School Bus

At 6:21 PM, Buffalo police dispatch broadcast that three children — ages 12, 9 and 8 — had not gotten off the school bus and were missing, naming the 12-year-old as Albin Menden and the 9-year-old as Asia Kashini while awaiting a third name, with units sent to an address near Northland Avenue.

A few minutes later, a unit radioed that the youngest child, described as "the little girl," had made it home on her own near Northland, allowing cars responding to that address to slow down, though additional units continued checking the surrounding area for the others.

Buffalo · Broadway-Fillmore

Mother Says Neighbor Pointed Gun at Child's Window

At 10:16 PM, Buffalo police dispatch sent multiple units after a caller reported that her neighbor had pointed a gun at her child's bedroom window, describing the suspect as a light-skinned Asian male wearing a red shirt and black shorts and armed with what she believed was a black handgun.

No shots were reported fired, and dispatch did not broadcast an arrest before the channel moved on to other calls, though at least two units were assigned to the address to take the report.

Cheektowaga · Union Road

Husband Allegedly Tries to Run Down Wife With Car in Cheektowaga Domestic Call

Yesterday at 7:54 PM, Cheektowaga police dispatch sent units toward Dick Road and George Urban Boulevard on a reported domestic dispute after a caller said her husband “was following her in a car and tried to hit her”.

The woman, driving a white Nissan Pathfinder, told dispatchers her husband was no longer behind her and arranged to meet officers near the Advance Auto Parts on Union Road, after first reporting she was at the Tops Plaza there; officers ran plates on both her Pathfinder and a second vehicle linked to the husband while watching the area for his car.

A supervisor, Sergeant Rakowski, checked in to ask whether the officer searching for the husband's vehicle needed backup; dispatch said not yet, since the car hadn't been located. A unit was reported pulling up at the Advance Auto Parts a few minutes later, with no further word on an arrest.

Hamburg · Old Lake Shore Road

Motorcyclist Found Unconscious on Old Lake Shore Road, Trauma Code Called in Hamburg

Yesterday at 10:20 PM, Hamburg police dispatch sent Station 29 to Old Lake Shore Road for a motorcyclist down and unconscious, calling in Station 26 to assist; dispatch briefly gave the cross street as Lake Hugh Road before correcting it two minutes later to Lakeview Road, saying “for some reason I was putting calls the wrong way”.

By 10:24 PM, with Stations 34, 26 and 29 on scene, dispatch upgraded the call, saying it was “going to be a trauma code now”.

East Aurora · Maple Road

Report of Weakness at Maple Road Home Upgraded to Possible Stroke

Yesterday at 6:49 PM, East Aurora Fire dispatch toned out an AMR ambulance to 1150 Maple Road for a 42-year-old man reported with weakness and left-arm numbness, with the crew already en route from East Road.

Minutes later, dispatch told a responding unit the call at 1150 Maple was now “possible stroke”, and a second crew, Jamison Road 7, was also sent and marked on location by 6:55 PM.

Olean · Olean High School

Olean Police Search for Teen Unseen Since Morning Near High School

Yesterday at 9:52 PM, Olean police dispatch put out a lookout for a teenager identified on the air as Coby Tisdale, last seen at Olean High School, after his father told officers the two had spoken around 11 AM and “nobody seen or heard from him since”.

Dispatch said an officer was working to get a photo from the father to aid the search; no further update was broadcast by the end of the window.