Cattaraugus County · Route 16 · Missing Patient

A Drone Finds a Man Who Walked Away From the Hospital, Pinning Him on the Railroad Tracks Off Route 16

Yesterday evening, Cattaraugus County deputies worked the dark fields near Sherlock Hollow with a drone overhead, talking searchers in on foot until a man who had absconded from the hospital was taken into custody — with a deep gash on his arm.

Yesterday at about 7:24 PM, Cattaraugus County sheriff's deputies were working the railroad tracks near Sherlock Hollow off Route 16, searching for a man who had walked away from Olean General Hospital. A deputy with eyes on a drone offered to guide searchers in, and the aircraft's operator began calling out positions — the subject “The drone is directly over the pier. Somebody walking. They're about 30 meters east of the tracks they've stopped”

With the drone directly over the figure, deputies on the ground were steered east toward the tracks — “go straight east from right there” By 7:28 PM, dispatch reported one male in custody. A deputy said he would have the man aboard and headed back to the jail, and notified hospital security they would be en route with him.

As the scene settled, a deputy asked for an ambulance: the man had a bad gash on the back of his right arm and needed to be looked over. Hospital security, deputies said, would be faxing over paperwork to attach to the case report.

Amherst · Route 290 · Injury Crash

A One-Month-Old Bleeds From the Mouth After a Two-Car Crash on the 290, Then Steadies at the Scene

Yesterday afternoon, Amherst officers raced to an injury accident on the 290 eastbound just before Millersport where the patient was a one-month-old — the extent of the injuries unknown until a closer look showed only blood from the gums.

Yesterday at about 4:49 PM, Amherst police were sent for an injury accident on the 290 eastbound just before Millersport, a two-car crash with an alarming detail: the patient was a one-month-old, said to be injured, with the extent unknown.

Early word from the scene was ominous — dispatch relayed that the infant was “bleeding from the mouth” As officers worked out the fastest way onto the highway, a unit reaching the child reported the better news: “Alert and conscious. It was just some blood from the gums. It's been stopped”

Clarence · Greiner Road · Hit-and-Run Assault

A Small Gray Car Hits a Pole on Greiner, and a Caller Says a Man Was Beating the Bleeding Woman Behind the Wheel

Overnight, a crash into a pole on Greiner turned into something darker: a witness told dispatch a man had been choking and beating the woman driving, who was bleeding — and the car fled before officers arrived.

At about 1:02 AM, dispatch put out an accident with injury on Greiner near East Delavan that was not a routine crash. The vehicle, described as a small gray car, had struck a pole — and a caller said that inside it “a male choking and beating the female passenger”

Moments later, dispatch sharpened the account: “The driver of the accident stated that the male was beating the female while she was driving and she was bleeding” The car left the scene after the crash in an unknown direction. Officers who reached the pole found “nothing showing out here damage-wise” — nothing left but the report and two callers. The scanner traffic did not establish whether the vehicle or its occupants were located before the thread closed.

Depew · Rutherford Avenue · Threats

Occupants of a Black SUV Threaten to “Shoot Up the Place” Outside a Rutherford Avenue Address, and Depew Cars Converge

Late yesterday, a Depew complainant reported a black SUV parked out front whose occupants were threatening to shoot up the place — a call that put cars on scene within minutes.

Yesterday at about 10:24 PM, Depew dispatch broadcast a threat call at 207 Rutherford: “complaint reporting a party, parties in a black SUV out front saying they're going to shoot up the place”

Cars acknowledged and were shown on location within minutes. The scanner traffic did not establish whether anyone was found with the SUV or what came of the threat before the thread closed.

Buffalo · East Side · Missing Juvenile

A 13-Year-Old Reported Missing Since the Previous Morning Is Still Unaccounted For as Officers Take the Report

Yesterday evening, Buffalo officers stood at an East Side address to take a missing-person report — a 13-year-old last seen the morning before, more than a day gone.

Yesterday at about 7:29 PM, officers on Buffalo's East Side radioed in from an address where a family member had reported a child missing. As dispatch logged it: “There's a female missing, 13-year-old, missing at 9:30 a.m. yesterday”

By the time officers arrived, the juvenile had been gone roughly a day and a half. The scanner traffic did not establish whether the child was located before the thread closed.

Thruway · I-190 · Found Dog

A Trooper Rolls Up on a Stray and Radios for a “Pedal to Her Car Seat”

A found-dog call gets the full plate-and-paperwork treatment on the Thruway.

Yesterday at about 10:13 PM, a Thruway trooper cleared a traffic stop and promptly stumbled onto something else entirely out near the 370-over-7 mark. “I rolled up on a DB. She's bound. She's going to need a pedal to her car seat” He even had a plate to run — out of New Jersey — and dispatch logged the whole thing as an event number at 2214, radio cadence intact for an occupant count of “Just the one” The dog, one assumes, did not provide a date of birth.

Hamburg · Shift Change · Overheard

“Eighty Off, Eighty-Two On, Good Evening”

A shift-change courtesy slips onto the air between the clearing cars.

Yesterday at about 6:33 PM, amid the routine Hamburg clutter of stations clearing and cars going to channel 6, one dispatcher handed off to the next with the small, human ceremony of a shift change, broadcast plain for anyone listening: “Eighty off, eighty-two on, good evening” The watch rolls over; the radio keeps its manners.

Boston · Boston State Road · Dispatcher's Gut

A Dispatcher Feels the Crash Coming Before the Call Does

“Turn around, we got an accident here and I'm feeling it.”

Yesterday at about 5:52 PM, a Hamburg fire dispatcher cut into a routine training note to wave two Boston units back around: “Boston 7-1, Boston 7-2, turn around, we got an accident here and I'm feeling it” A minute later the formal tone followed — an auto accident with injuries at Boston State and Umphalia, two ambulances requested. The gut, it seems, keys up faster than the 911 line.

Thruway · Overnight · Number Check

Troopers Run a Formal Roll of Numbers Into the Dead of Night

An administrative check unfolds with the cadence of a ritual.

A few minutes after midnight, the Thruway channel filled not with wrecks but with arithmetic — a long, formal roll call of patrol numbers and posts read back and forth, opened by the solemn-sounding “New York State's Airway Authority, KRX 385, Buffalo 12 State, please patrol standby to acknowledge” It is the overnight liturgy of a state radio net: no drama, just the steady telling of a bead of numbers to prove everyone is where they should be.

Lancaster · Ambulance 2 · Overheard

An Ambulance Crew Trades a Blessing Back and Forth, Three Times, Over the Air

“May it be with you, may it be with you, may it be with you.”

Yesterday at about 6:24 PM, the Lancaster Ambulance 2 channel offered a small benediction into the routine of transports and sign-offs, keyed up and repeated like a charm against a long shift: “May it be with you, may it be with you, may it be with you” Three for luck — and apparently one was not enough.

Amherst · Nickel Way · Domestic Incident

Text-to-911 Reports Boyfriend Broke Into Woman's Amherst Apartment

Yesterday at 10:15 PM, Amherst police sent multiple units to the Villas at 5103 Nickel Way after a text-to-911 message reported that “a woman on the line said her boyfriend had broken into her apartment”; dispatch said information was very limited as units were sent and that the department was still trying to get more information from her by phone.

Amherst · Wegmans · Shoplifting

Off-Duty Officer Trails Wegmans Shoplifter, Merchandise Recovered

Yesterday at 5:36 PM, Amherst police were sent to a shoplifting at Wegmans, 675 Alberta Drive, after the suspects had already left the store; dispatch said an off-duty officer had followed them, gotten a good plate on their vehicle, and had the suspect last seen southbound on Bailey Avenue crossing Sheridan Drive, with the off-duty officer staying on the phone with dispatch and keeping eyes on the suspect near the 3500 block of Bailey.

A lieutenant on scene confirmed Wegmans recovered its merchandise, and the suspect — described as a white female in black clothing with brown hair, wearing pink boots — was located “on foot, walking on Kenmore, front of Walgreens right now” on Kenmore Avenue.

Williamsville · South Union Street · Welfare Check

Welfare Check Sought for Woman Who Left Hospital Against Medical Advice

Yesterday at 4:05 PM, Amherst police were sent to 202 South Union Street for a welfare check after a woman's out-of-state son asked officers to look in on his mother — identified on dispatch as Jean Lane — saying she had left the hospital against medical advice after treatment for a brain bleed and had been hallucinating and confused; dispatch said a friend staying with her had alerted the son, but it was not clear whether anyone was on location at the apartment.

Buffalo · Butler Street · Second-Alarm Fire

Second Alarm Sends Crews Back to Butler Street for Possible Reignite

At 6:14 AM, Buffalo Fire Dispatch sent a full box assignment — Engine 21, Engine 33, Engine 37, Ladder 6, Ladder 4, Ladder 14 as the fast truck, plus two battalion chiefs — to 183 and 188 Butler, between Lonsdale and Wohlers, for a structure fire dispatchers described as a possible reignite.

Minutes into the response, dispatch told responding companies that the department's computer-aided dispatch system had gone down and ordered crews onto Channel 2 to continue coordinating by voice; by 6:20 AM, with CAD still out, Buffalo Fire called for additional equipment — Engine 3, Engine 31 and Ladder 7 — to join the Butler Street response.

Buffalo · Melrose Avenue · Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound

Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound Draws Heavy Response on Melrose Avenue

At 5:25 AM, Buffalo Fire Dispatch sent Engine 25, Ladder 10 and EMS 29 to Melrose Avenue between Abbott and Cumberland for a report of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, noting that police were already on location.

Cheektowaga · Atwood Avenue · Death Threats

Man Texts Threats to Kill Cheektowaga Woman a Day After Smashing Her Window

At 12:35 AM, Cheektowaga police sent a unit to 30 Atwood, lower, after dispatch relayed that a man identified on the radio as Max had been texting threats over the phone that he was going to come kill the complainant.

Dispatch noted officers had been at the same address the day before, when Max smashed a window, and that he has a pending warrant application along with an order to refrain from contact; the complainant said Max had told her to come outside but she had not looked to see if he was actually there, leaving responding officers unsure whether he remained on scene.

Orchard Park · Mile Strip Road · Crash

Children Among the Injured in Mile Strip Road Crash

Yesterday at 7:24 PM, Orchard Park Fire Dispatch sent Windham, Park and Hillcrest companies, along with EMS 824, to a motor vehicle accident with possible injuries on Mile Strip Road between Amelia and California, near the viaduct, with dispatch noting at least two children involved; a fire-control unit on scene initially reported two other vehicles may have left the area.

Arriving companies found one vehicle at the scene with both children out and “everybody's out of the car and we'll be evaluating, they're all walking”; a patrol unit on scene then reported the call would stay a traffic accident with injury requiring only an EMS evaluation, and fire equipment was not needed.

Wyoming County · Java Lake Road · Vehicle Fire

Four-Wheeler Fully Engulfed on Java Lake Road Draws Mutual-Aid Engine

Yesterday at 4:40 PM, the Java Fire Department requested a mutual-aid engine from Strikersville to Java Lake Road near the Wildermere Drive intersection for a fully engulfed four-wheeler fire.

Crews arriving on scene confirmed the vehicle burning in the roadway and noted “it might have a little brush going too”.

Cattaraugus County · Gowanda · Nursing Home Fire

Gowanda Nursing Home Evacuated After Fire in North Shore Unit

Just after 7 PM yesterday, Cattaraugus County Sheriff's dispatch directed a unit to clear and head to the Gowanda Nursing Home at 100 Miller Street for a fire in the facility's North Shore unit, advising that the home would need assistance and that State Police were also heading that way.

Several minutes later, dispatch confirmed the facility was evacuating, with units converging on Miller Street for the Gowanda Nursing Home response.

Jamestown · Harris Street · Welfare Check

Jamestown Police Rushed to Harris Street Report of Woman With Something Around Her Neck

Yesterday at 6:13 PM, Jamestown police dispatch sent unit J-1 to 91 Harris Street after a report that a woman identified on the radio as Crystal had something wrapped around her neck; dispatch gave no further detail on the item or her condition as the unit responded, and no follow-up on her status came over the air in this window.

Cattaraugus County · Little Valley · Arrest

Little Valley Arrest Turns Up Warrants From an Outside Department

Yesterday at 10:38 PM, Cattaraugus County sheriff's deputies in Little Valley took a woman identified on dispatch as Breanne Jordan into custody, with the dispatcher noting she was believed to also be wanted on warrants out of OPD and asking whether that outside department wanted her held.

Minutes earlier, a deputy had separately asked dispatch to confirm an active warrant for a man identified on the radio as Darren Litchie, out of the Syracuse City Police Department, and whether that department wanted him picked up as well.