Chautauqua County · Jamestown · Person With a Knife

A Man With a Knife Threatens to Kill His Wife and Three Children at a Franklin Street Home

The caller said her husband was inside the house and threatening the whole family as Jamestown officers raced to the scene.

Yesterday at about 4:54 PM, Jamestown police were sent to 55 Franklin Street for a person with a weapon — a man described on dispatch as “father threatening to kill caller and her husband and three children”, with the subject reported still inside the residence.

The call came across both the Jamestown and Chautauqua County law-enforcement channels as officers were put en route, a fast-moving domestic that set the tone for a busy Chautauqua-Cattaraugus evening of fights, searches and assaults.

Clarence · Cherrywood · Armed Threat

Teens Report a Woman Flashing a Gun on Her Hip, Then Fleeing Toward Klein Road

Dispatch put out a white Infiniti SUV after two teenagers said the driver threatened to shoot and sped off southbound.

Yesterday at about 4:32 PM, dispatch sent a unit to 145 Cherrywood on a report that was about five minutes old: two teenagers said they saw a white Infiniti, possibly a QX80, “occupied by a black female, middle-aged” who had “a gun on her hip”.

According to the teens, the driver “said she was going to blow the kid's brains out”, then left southbound toward Klein Road[*]. Dispatch repeated the vehicle description for responding cars as they moved to cover the area.

Cheektowaga · Harlem / Walden District · Missing Child

A Found Autistic 4-Year-Old Sends Cheektowaga Officers Walking Yard to Yard Hunting His Family

With the boy unable to tell them where he lived, officers worked old calls, old faces and a tip about a family before the mystery resolved safely.

Late yesterday evening, around 11:00 PM, Cheektowaga officers found themselves with a problem in reverse: a child, not a parent. An officer reported that “the young boy here appears autistic, he's having a hard time communicating”, a black male about four years old with longer dreadlock-style hair, first seen on the west side of Lom walking southbound near Straley.

Unable to get a name, officers fanned out through the Harlem-Walden district, splitting streets and walking yards to look for “any sort of children's toys in the front yard or back yard”. They traded institutional memory on the air — an officer recalled a black male autistic child who had wandered off a year or two earlier from over on Olcott, and another remembered dealing with a boy named Messiah from a family with several young children, pointing toward 120 Leonard Post.

A check of 120 Leonard Post came back negative, but the search ultimately ended with the boy accounted for — one of two overnight missing-child scares across the region that both closed safely.

Amherst · Patton Place · Missing Child

A Nonverbal 15-Year-Old Who Likes Water Goes Missing From Patton Place

Officers pushed into the neighborhood after the teen walked out the front door, with a complainant warning he gravitates toward water.

Yesterday at about 7:25 PM, Amherst dispatch sent officers to 219 Patton for a “15-year-old non-verbal son that went out the front door about 20 minutes ago”. A unit was shown into the area within minutes, with the complainant waiting to meet officers at Hershey and Presidio.

Dispatch relayed a detail that shaped the search: the subject “does like to go where, uh, towards water”. A few minutes later the complainant returned to the house at 219 Patton; she had not had eyes on the teen recently and was simply looking for him as officers continued working the surrounding streets.

Cattaraugus County · Great Valley · Suspicious Approach

Two 15-Year-Old Girls Report Being Offered a Ride for $10 by an SUV That Kept Circling

A deputy and state troopers converged near Hall's Produce on Route 219 after the gray Hyundai came back through the area.

Yesterday at about 6:28 PM, a Cattaraugus County deputy was asked to respond near Hall's Produce on Route 219 just north of Depot Street, after a report that “two 15 year old females were walking down the road, gray SUV, pulled over asking if they wanted a ride for $10”. The caller said the vehicle then “came back driving in the area, possibly a Hyundai crossover type vehicle”.

One of the 15-year-olds stayed in the area, and the responding deputy held off approaching until State Police arrived. As the call wound down, dispatch tracked the SUV continuing north on Route 219 toward Ellicottville — described as a newer-model dark-gray Hyundai — with troopers taking the scene.

Erie County · Dirt Bike Crash

A Dirt-Bike Rider Leaves a Crash With Broken Ribs and a Collapsed Lung, Bound for ECMC by Air

A helmeted rider thrown at roughly 35 mph was packaged as a trauma transfer, ten minutes from the helipad with a small hemo-pneumothorax.

Late yesterday, at about 11:30 PM, a medic crew relayed a trauma transfer bound for ECMC: a dirt-bike crash in which a helmeted rider, going about 35 miles per hour, had suffered a loss of consciousness and injuries to his right side. The crew reported “right-sided rib fractures, small hemo-pneumothorax”, but described the patient as stable, alert and oriented.

With a heart rate of 75, a blood pressure of 181 and oxygen saturation at 96% on two liters, the crew advised they were “approximately 10 minutes to the helipad” — a collapsed-lung injury serious enough to warrant a flight, capping an overnight that was heavy on two-wheeled trouble across the region.

Chautauqua County · Dunkirk · Stabbing

A Woman Says Three Strangers Stabbed Her While Hunting for Her Daughter

Dunkirk officers moved between the scene and a South Margay address, believing the daughter the attackers wanted might be there.

Yesterday at about 10:27 PM, Dunkirk police reported that “she was stabbed by three unknown males looking for her daughter”. The woman told officers her daughter was not at home.

An officer said he would head to 110 South Margay, believing the daughter might be there, and asked that units be sent to the scene once she was located. Dispatch relayed partial descriptions of the three suspects as additional cars began looking in the nearby area.

Buffalo · Niagara Street · Dirt Bike Swarm

Fifty-Plus Dirt Bikes and ATVs Swarm Down Niagara Street as the Night Wears On

An officer put out an officer-safety advisory on a crew of fifty to sixty two-wheelers running south, one of several swarms Buffalo tracked overnight.

Yesterday at about 9:03 PM, a Buffalo officer issued an officer-safety advisory on Niagara Street: a crew of “about 50 to 60 motorcycles, dirt bikes, and ATVs”, heading south. The warning went out as units sorted a separate person-down call elsewhere in the district.

It was one of several two-wheeled swarms Buffalo tracked through the evening — later transmissions counted sixty to seventy dirt bikers heading south on Niagara before dispersing, part of a region-wide theme that ran from city streets to a dirt-bike crash that sent a rider to the helipad.

Lancaster · Transit Road · Hotel Burglary

A Thief Walks Out of a Transit Road Hotel Room With a Locked Safe — and the Firearm Inside It

A guest reported multiple items stolen from the room, including a lockbox containing a gun.

Yesterday at about 9:30 PM, Lancaster police took a burglary report from a Transit Road hotel room, where a guest said multiple items had been stolen — among them a locked safe containing a firearm.

The theft of a secured gun gave the otherwise routine room burglary added weight as officers worked the report.

Airport · Shuttle Dispatch

Snap, Circle, Repeat: A Shuttle Driver's Slow-Motion Agony at the Terminal Curb

A rider circled the car twice, camera out, as the clock — and the driver's patience — ran down.

Yesterday at 3:57 PM, an airport shuttle driver narrated a small roadside drama with the exasperation of a man watching paint dry: a dropped-off passenger “Dropped off, holy cow! Friggin' taking forever walking around their car twice, taking pictures of their car”. No units responded. None could.

Airport · Shuttle Dispatch

$923 and Counting: Airport Parking Sticker Shock Inspires a Marathon

“Almost a thousand friggin' dollars” — a traveler does the math and reconsiders his life choices.

Yesterday at 7:20 PM, a shuttle channel carried a fellow traveler's running total of woe: “923. I can't take it anymore. It's $923”. For context, he noted, “My wife and I, we pay $290 something for two vehicles” — the kind of comparison that, by his own reckoning, would make a man lace up: he'd “run a fucking marathon to get money taken off”.

Buffalo · UB Campus · Welfare Check

A Very Good Boy, a Very Cool Tesla: UB Officer Reports a Dog Living the Dream

Sentry mode on, AC at 69 degrees, doggy bed deployed — Simon is, by official account, chilling.

Yesterday at 6:43 PM, a UB officer delivered the rare welfare check that resolves itself in the first breath: a Tesla with a screen announcing sentry mode, and inside, “Simon is chilling, the AC is on, and it's 69 degrees Fahrenheit, the dog's got a nice little doggy bed in there, and he looks fairly happy”.

Cheektowaga · PD Dispatch

Dispatch's Parting Orders: Eat Up Those Chicken Nuggets, Still Working on the Fries

Amid an overnight full of serious calls, a brief, humane aside about dinner on the radio.

Late yesterday, at about 11:01 PM, in a lull between the night's heavier traffic, the Cheektowaga channel offered a snapshot of the human beings behind the badges: “Tell him to eat up those chicken nuggets. Still working on the fries”.

Hamburg · PD Dispatch

“Just Lead Me to the Blotter, Please”: An Officer's Humble Clear-Out

Car clear, paperwork beckoning — a weary sign-off from the Southtowns.

Yesterday at 5:52 PM, a Hamburg officer cleared a call with a request that, here at the Listening Post, we found impossible to ignore: “car is clear, just lead me to the blotter please”. Consider it done, Station 26.

Hamburg · Camp Road · Rubbish Fire

No Rush, But a Burning Pile Behind the Concrete Plant Could Use a Driver

A large rubbish fire behind Great Lakes Concrete drew a laid-back, help-if-you-can page.

Yesterday at about 4:43 PM, Hamburg Fire paged a large rubbish pile burning behind Great Lakes Concrete at 6690 Camp Road. As units sorted out who could roll, the tone stayed almost conversational — a response gathering itself one available driver at a time while control held the scene on a pile that would, soon enough, get torn apart.

Amherst · Getzville · Cardiac Arrest

47-Year-Old Man's Cardiac Arrest Prompts Echo Response at Getzville's Bavia Lofts

Yesterday at 6:32 PM, Amherst Fire dispatched an EMS echo response — the highest urgency level — to 100 Maple Road at Bavia Lofts in Getzville, between Amherst Manor Drive and Maplemere Road, for a 47-year-old man in cardiac arrest.

East Amherst's Engine 8 and 9-1 were sent to assist, followed shortly by East Amherst 92.

Tonawanda · Kenmore Avenue · Medical Call

Unconscious Man Found Bleeding on Kenmore Avenue Wakes Up Alert

Yesterday at 9:30 PM, Tonawanda Police sent a hot response to 945 Kenmore Avenue after a caller reported a man outside who had hit his head and was bleeding — unconscious, but breathing.

Units arrived within minutes, and by 9:34 PM dispatch relayed that the man was “conscious, alert, breathing normal”, with responders reporting “a gash on his forehead, bleeding is controlled”.

Tonawanda · Maple View · Domestic

Father's Aggression Toward Autistic Son Outside Maple View Home Draws Police Advisory

Yesterday at 3:06 PM, Tonawanda Police were sent to 219 Maple View for a domestic call after dispatch reported the husband was outside the home, “being aggressive, yelling at their son”.

Responding units asked dispatch for a 52B advisory after learning the son has autism, a detail relayed to officers before they arrived on scene.

Newstead · Swift Mills Road · Medical Call

82-Year-Old Found Unresponsive After Fall on Newstead's Swift Mills Road

Yesterday at 5:27 PM, Amherst Fire dispatched Newstead EMS to 12332 Swift Mills Road, between Greenbush Drive and Mill Road, for an 82-year-old woman who had fallen and suffered a head injury.

A follow-up transmission moments later confirmed the Swift Mills Road address and repeated that she was not alert.

Newstead · Barnum Road · Brush Fire

Brush Fire Burns 300 Feet Off Barnum Road in Newstead

Yesterday at 8:35 PM, Amherst Fire dispatched a report of a possible brush fire at 5715 Barnum Road in Newstead, between Howie Road and the Peanut Line Trail, with the caller reporting it roughly 300 feet off the roadway.

Houston 92 and Newstead 9-1 responded to the scene.

Buffalo · Niagara Square · Reckless Pursuit

ATV-Motorcycle Pack Blows Through Niagara Square, Ends in an Arrest

Yesterday at 8:08 PM, Buffalo Police flagged a reckless stop on Broadway after officers reported a pack of eight ATVs and motorcycles “traveling at a high rate of speed, disregarding traffic lights”, with the group curling onto Niagara Square as it fled.

Minutes later, a unit radioed that the stop ended “act with arrest”, thanking the other cars that had assisted — the apparent end of the chase, though dispatch did not specify how many riders, if any, were taken into custody.

Buffalo · Geneva Street · Shots Fired

Shots Fired Near Geneva Street Leave Shotgun, Pistol Shells and a Bullet-Riddled BMW

At 4:01 AM, Buffalo Police units responding near Geneva Street were advised of one shot fired, and officers arriving at the scene found it already littered with evidence.

Officers radioed that “we got shotgun shells over here, and pistol shells”, along with a New York-plated BMW that had what one officer described as bullet holes, and said three complainants were on scene.

A victim told officers a black male in a black hoodie pulled up in a car, got out and opened fire on the group with a long gun before the rest of his description was lost in the radio traffic.

Buffalo · Route 190 · Traffic Crash

Three-Car Crash With Injuries Snarls 190 Southbound Near Smith Street

Yesterday at 10:22 PM, Buffalo Fire sent EMS and engine companies to Route 190 southbound near mile marker 2.5, between Clinton and Smith, on a report of a three-car crash with injuries.

Dispatch sent Engine 35, Ladder 15, Rescue 1, Engine 40 and Battalion 46 to the scene, and crews reported on location within two minutes.

Buffalo · Grant Street · Threats

Man With Knife Threatens to Hunt Down Partygoers Hiding in Grant Street Bushes

At 1:00 AM, Buffalo Police sent units to 669 Grant Street for a threats-in-progress call after a caller identified as Jacqueline reported a man dressed in all black, armed with a knife, who said he was coming to find them.

The caller said the group had been at a party that was shut down and was now hiding in the bushes; dispatch also asked that Buffalo State College police be notified, believing the location to be on the campus.

Buffalo · Bailey Avenue · Disturbance

25-Person Brawl Blocks Bailey Avenue, Strikes Car Before Dawn

At 5:38 AM, Buffalo Police sent multiple units to 875 Bailey Avenue on a report of roughly 25 people fighting outside the location, with no weapons seen and no complainant on the line.

Minutes later, dispatch advised that the crowd was blocking traffic and had struck a vehicle as a female driver tried to pass, and radioed other cars headed to Bailey to slow down approaching the scene.

Orchard Park · Heart Place · Working Incident

Orchard Park Crews Call for More Manpower Twice at Heart Place

Yesterday at 7:01 PM, Orchard Park Fire Control directed responding companies to route in off Beeler Road toward Minden and Bergen after a unit already on scene reported the call had gone to what dispatch termed a "code."

Control repeated pages for more manpower at Heart Place twice in the following minutes, and a Fire Police unit staged on Beeler radioed that it could not yet see the fire from its position.

Hamburg · Woodlawn Beach · Medical Call

Woodlawn Beach Visitor Steps on Steak Knife, Suffers Serious Bleeding

Yesterday at 8:25 PM, Hamburg Fire Dispatch sent crews to Woodlawn Beach State Park, 3580 Lakeshore Road, after a 24-year-old woman stepped on a steak knife inside the park's main building and suffered what dispatchers described as serious bleeding.

Dispatch called for a paramedic response as Hamburg's Armor 8, Armor 9 and Woodlawn 9-5 converged on the park; AMR was on scene within two minutes and took over care.

Eden · Sandrock Road · Rollover MVA

Car Flips Onto Its Roof at Sandrock and Lourdes, Shears Utility Pole

Early this morning, just after 1:13 AM, Hamburg Fire Dispatch sent the Eden Emergency Squad to Sandrock Road and Lourdes Drive in Eden for a reported single-vehicle accident.

Eden 9 arrived to find the car resting on its roof; the lone occupant was out of the vehicle and claiming no injury, though the crash sheared off a utility pole and forced crews to shut Sandrock Road at both Lourdes and Oakland while the downed wires were addressed.

Wyoming County · Silver Springs · Medical Call

Breathing Trouble Call for Elderly Silver Springs Man Draws Second-Alarm Backup

Yesterday at 10:26 PM, Wyoming County Fire dispatched a medical call to 3458 Beardsley Road for an 83-year-old man having trouble breathing.

The first unit on scene reported “nothing showing”, but dispatch called for a second alarm with units told to “hold on quarters”, a request Silver Springs companies acknowledged.

Chautauqua County · Sinclairville · Structure Fire

Sinclairville School Fire Alarm Escalates to Structure Fire, Mutual Aid Called

Yesterday at 6:36 PM, Chautauqua County Fire dispatched a fire-alarm activation at Cassadaga Valley Central School in Sinclairville, reported as coming from the high school fitness area.

Within a minute, Engine 461 and fire coordinators were sent to back up the initial response as the call continued to develop.

By 6:43 PM the call was upgraded to a structure fire after crews radioed that smoke had been reported inside the building, with operations shifted to a tactical channel.

Dispatch ordered mutual aid minutes later, telling the Cassadaga company to “man your equipment” for the structure fire at the school.

Little Valley · Yorkshire Creek Road · Knife Assault

Man Assaulted With Knife on Yorkshire Creek Road, Suspect Flees Toward Springville

Yesterday at 7:15 PM, Cattaraugus County Sheriff's deputies were sent to Yorkshire Creek Road in Little Valley after a caller reported that a man had been dropped off by a driver identified on dispatch as Cody Wilber, who had assaulted him with a knife.

Dispatch described the suspect vehicle as a black Ford F-150 with a loud exhaust and no visible plate, last seen heading south on Route 39 toward Springville; the truck was reported not to be registered to Wilber, and the injured man refused EMS treatment at the scene.

Randolph · Miller Street · Fall

Man Falls 12 Feet From Scaffolding in Randolph, Mercy Flight Called as Ground Standby

Yesterday at 8:21 PM, Cattaraugus County Fire Dispatch reported that a 60-year-old man had fallen 12 feet from scaffolding at 20 Miller Street in Randolph, suffering back and hip injuries with no loss of consciousness.

Dispatch arranged for Mercy Flight 5 to respond as a ground standby out of Buffalo, with an estimated arrival of 20 to 25 minutes.

Brockton · Hemlock Street · Medical

Young Woman Seizes on Hemlock Street, ALS Dispatched

Yesterday at 9:31 PM, Chautauqua County Fire Dispatch sent Brockton and Portland units, along with a county ALS response, to 17 Hemlock Street for a 24-year-old woman in seizure.