Around the NeighborhoodWilliamsville, Clarence, Amherst, Newstead — what the radios said today
Developing
Car vs. Pole on New Road Shears Pole 1548 in Half, Drops Verizon Lines Across Both Lanes
North Amherst — just south of Tonawanda Creek Road — closed for the better part of two hours after midday rollover-style crash
Just before 12:43 p.m. an Amherst officer reported “a car versus a pole with wires down, 1505 New Road,” just south of Tonawanda Creek Road.[1] Amherst Fire Dispatch toned out for an MVA between Millersport Highway and Tonawanda Creek Road within the minute,[2] and within six minutes the responding officer was painting the scene: “Pole number 1548, completely sheared off … no wires down, they’re just still attached to the sheared-off pole. It’s a Verizon line.”[3] National Grid was pulled in to confirm secondary power was not involved.[4] By 1:40 p.m. APD had to re-close New Road southbound from Tonawanda Creek to Millersport, after a brief reopening; local traffic was allowed north of the accident only.[5] One driver actually slipped around the cruiser road-block while the officer was talking to pedestrians — prompting the line of the afternoon from a second unit: “Copy. I like conversations.”[6]
Developing
Possible Rollover With Extrication, Hunts Corners at Salt — Clarence Center 9-1
9:45 a.m. — single occupant freed with arm laceration before the second ambulance even cleared dispatch
Amherst Fire Dispatch toned Clarence Center fire crews to Hunts Corners Road at Salt Road just before 9:46 a.m. for a “possible rollover with extrication required.”[7] Within a minute the radio softened: “Patient is extricated, has an arm laceration. Is just the one vehicle involved?” — affirmative, one vehicle.[8] Clarence Center 9-1 went to staging shortly after,[9] and the patient was loaded for transport with what dispatch described as a “decent arm laceration.”[10]
Update
30-Year-Old Drops at the Chapel at Crosspoint — ALS Stages on the East-Side Entrance
500 Cross Point Parkway, between North French and Millersport — ALS Capsule 51, AMR, and Amherst PD all rolling by 9:15 a.m.
Amherst Fire Dispatch put it bluntly at 9:11 a.m.: “A 30-year-old patient with chest pain reported to be unconscious, using east-side entrance.”[11] AMR’s ALS Capsule 51 was responding within four minutes;[12] APD officers on scene called out the entrance location twice to make sure the medics found the patient quickly — “East side entrance. East side entrance.”[13] The patient was reported chest-pain, unresponsive, and down.[14]
Wegmans Parking Lot Domestic — “People in Vehicle Fighting” in the Black Kia
Just before noon, 675 Alberta Drive — APD pulls a Tennessee fugitive out of the front seat
An APD unit called out a “domestic trouble, people in vehicle fighting” at the Wegmans at 675 Alberta Drive at 11:59 a.m., flagging the car as a black Kia in the middle of the front lot.[15] The pull took an interesting turn: dispatch came back with one party valid but the second occupant — “Roderick” — showing a U.S.-extraditable F2 out of Tennessee for felony sexual battery, with a call out to Tennessee in progress.[16] Ashley parking-lot supervisors got involved as the dispute moved; APD eventually had two IDs running and a tow in the wings.[17]
Stolen Home Depot Rental Van Surfaces on Sheridan — APD Calls Cheektowaga to Take the Recovery
1:29 p.m. — Florida plate, “hit a lot of lows,” one named party off the rental
An Amherst officer announced an “overdue rental vehicle from Home Depot” on the air at 1:29 p.m. — “just hit a lot of lows,” with the plate eventually coming back odd: “The plate you gave says it was replaced by another plate.”[18] The named party riding with the rental was identified on the air as Hannah Alvarez — later corrected to Fanta Alvarez.[19] By 1:51 p.m. an APD supervisor was on the radio asking dispatch to contact Cheektowaga PD to see whether they wanted to recover the van or have Home Depot do it themselves.[20] Recovery in Cheektowaga via the original rental store appeared to be the plan as the shift turned over.
EMS for a Female Down in the Lot at 7800 Transit Road — Semi-Responsive, Just Past 2 p.m.
Across from Santora’s, between Sheridan and Third Avenue
Just after 2:06 p.m., Amherst Fire Dispatch toned Main-Transit NAMS to 7800 Transit Road at Santora, between Sheridan Drive and Third Avenue, for “a female down outside in the parking lot, semi-responsive.”[21] Trenton 9 responded;[22] Chief 237 cleared the call from Sheridan/Hopkins shortly after.[23] Patient left scene with Trenton 237 for the General with what dispatch coded as an “unknown.”[24]
Twin Fire-Alarm Activations on Wehrle Drive at the Mathewson Little-League Complex
1780 and 1995 Wehrle within twelve minutes — both tracked to propped-open doors
Amherst Fire Dispatch caught one main-lobby smoke-detector activation at 1780 Wehrle Drive at 11:55 a.m.,[25] then a second — this one a fire-panic at 1995 Wehrle at the Mathewson Little League between Element Drive and Tech Drive — at 12:07 p.m.[26] The crew on scene worked it: “Smoke head set off by propping doors open … that’s clear, caused by propping doors open. It’s avoidable.”[27] Main Transit Truck 6 cleared back to quarters before 12:13 p.m.
100-mph Motorcycle Eastbound on Sheridan at Tristan — Officer-Observed
2:03 p.m. — black bike, possibly dark blue, no plate, no closure
“Central Radio, motorcycle just passed me at 117 Sheridan, eastbound at Tristan,” one APD car reported just after 2 p.m. — followed by a second transmission marking the bike at “a high rate of speed over 100 miles per hour.”[28] The unit described it as a black bike, possibly dark blue, no further detail.[29] No pursuit was authorized; the radio went quiet.
Overheard: The WiresThe strange, the funny, the “wait, what?” from across the bandplan
What the…?!
Amherst PD’s Slowest Foot-Pursuit of the Year: A Snapping Turtle on Ashdale Circle
11 Ashdale Circle — the turtle is holding up traffic, multiple callers, then a happy ending
At 9:42 a.m. an Amherst officer was sent to investigate “a snapping turtle in the caller’s yard at 11 Ashdale Circle.”[30] Ninety minutes later the call had grown legs — or the turtle had — and the radio picked it up again: “Our caller said that it was holding up traffic and there might have been some people trying to stop and help it.”[31] The officer came back on the air with the only acceptable resolution: “When I picked up the turtle, I’m going to take him to a pond.” Dispatch replied without missing a beat: “Happy you captured the turtle. No problem.”[32]
What the…?!
“She Left Her Shoes Behind”: Intoxicated Patron Flees Zoom Tan in a Red Mazda
7660 Transit Road, 2:19 p.m. — APD says the woman had been drinking inside the tanning salon
An Amherst officer aired the alert at 2:19 p.m.: a red Mazda SUV, plate King X-Ray Frank 8908, leaving southbound from Zoom Tan at 7660 Transit Road. Driver: a white female in a gray tank top and black shorts, “reported to be intoxicated, and she was drinking inside the tanning salon.” And the detail that earns the headline: “She left her shoes behind at the store.”[33] The vehicle came back to a Kelly Marie Farino, born ’85, of Shady Grove Court.[34]
What the…?!
“I Like Conversations” — The Best Line on a Five-Hour Pole Call
New Road road-block, 12:59 p.m. — a driver in a black muscle-car slips around an APD cruiser
While the New Road pole scene was still hot, one APD unit asked the other for guidance after a driver in “a Ford black road muscle” slipped past his roadblock: “Did he go around your roadblock? Should we have a conversation with him?” The cruiser admitted, “Yeah, a conversation. I was looking the other way. I had some pedestrians here asking questions. He slipped behind me.” The reply, delivered with the entire dryness of an 11-year veteran: “Copy. I like conversations.” — and a moment later: “He pulled into the driveway down there.”[6]
What the…?!
Drag-Racing Since 0700 on Van Hopkins — APD Caller Has Been Counting Engines for Two Hours
9:04 a.m. — the caller is on Dan Troy and the kids are not letting up
An Amherst officer relayed the complaint verbatim at 9:04 a.m.: “Van Hopkins, our caller’s on Dan Troy, those others on cars, drag racing since 0700 today.”[35] The supervisor acknowledged with one of the day’s great two-word affirmations: “Good work.”[36]
Footnote
Auf Wiedersehen, Wegmans — APD Wraps a Foot Stop in Two Languages
1:29 p.m. — Amherst PD signs off the Home Depot rental-van call with one of the warmer wires of the day
After running the plate on the overdue Home Depot rental and confirming the named party, the APD officer cleared the air with an unusual closer: a flat, friendly “Au revoir.”[37]
Footnote
Deer Struck on the 290 EB Shoulder in Front of the Blue Cross Tower — “Struggling to Get Up”
8:24 a.m. — called in by a passerby, animal still alive, 11 Radio looking for the carcass log
“It appears there was a deer struck, 290 eastbound, in front of the Blue Cross Tower. It’s on the right shoulder, struggling to get up. There’s no vehicles around. It’s called in by a passerby.”[38] The carcass-removal log from the previous night came up empty; the caller insisted the animal was still alive.[39]
Footnote
HMS Security Tries to Find “George” in the Stadium — Doors, Keys, and Yellow-Tie-Wire Rings
Sahlen Field, between 8 and 9 a.m. — a slow-motion treasure hunt for a tech-room key
The Sports Venues channel ran a sprawling key-and-door operation through the first hour of the day. Highlights: “George, where you at?” / “I’m on 281” — followed by an instructional aside about an “old key with a yellow tie-wire ring on it. That’s the tech-room key.”[40] Five minutes later the supervisor was paging colleagues to make sure release forms got filled out for “a big group of people here from Greenway.”[41]
Regional BlotterWNY-wide — the rest of the radio
Buffalo Fire Hazmat: Activated Carbon-Monoxide Alarm at 210 Franklin Street, 32 ppm
10:24 a.m. — commercial CO detector triggers a National Fuel callout
BFD Channel 1 dispatched on an activated commercial carbon-monoxide alarm at 210 Franklin Street;[42] on-scene crews reported readings of 32 parts per million and called for a National Fuel response.[43]
61-Year-Old Female Hemorrhaging at 214 East Avenue, Akron — Amherst Fire Standby
8:33 a.m. — Akron and Newstead EMS in, AMR standby on hold
Amherst Fire Dispatch toned Akron-area EMS to 214 East Avenue, between State Street and Facet Street, for a 61-year-old female hemorrhaging; the call held briefly on “standby” before being tipped over.[44]
Cheektowaga Fire: Smoke From an Electrical Outlet at a Home Daycare on Crescent Court
2:32 p.m. — U-Crest investigation, between Wheaton and Camel
Cheektowaga Fire Dispatch was on the U-Crest channel investigating “smoke coming from an electrical outlet at 10 Crescent Court — home daycare also,” between Wheaton and Camel, southern/north side.[45] Timeout at 14:32.
Buffalo Fire AM Radio Check — WNMS 545, by Authority of the FCC
8:37 a.m. — the daily attestation goes out clean on Channel 1
BFD’s dispatcher read the federally-mandated station ID on the air twice in quick succession: “This is the Buffalo Fire Department radio station WNMS 545, operated by the authority of the Federal Communications Commission, making the AM radio test.”[46]
Other Calls of Note
08:33 — Amherst Fire Dis. — 60-year-old female, disoriented with high heart rate, 70 Charter Oaks Drive condo #4, second-time-out at 8:30; Twin City Ambulance transport.[47]
08:35 — Amherst PD. — 23 Lynette Lane reports the house to the left was struck by a tree from a vehicle overnight; no overnight call on file. Google Maps puts the actual address at 31 Lynette.[48]
10:16 — Amherst PD. — 29 West Somerset, domestic-history address; caller will be down the street trying to retrieve belongings from 66 West Somerset. Complainant named on dispatch as Jamal Jordan, showing a non-extraditable F2 from Georgia for probation violation / trespassing.[49]
11:43 — Amherst Fire Dis. — 476 North Ellicott Creek Road, Transitional Services, at Niagara Falls Boulevard and Sweet Home; 60-year-old male with chest pain — Ellicott Creek EMS responding.[50]
12:23 — Amherst Fire Dis. — Snyder 9-1-1 flagged down for an odor of gas outside the residence at 111 Thomas Jefferson Lane.[51]
12:39 — Amherst Fire Dis. — National Fuel notified to a separate gas-odor complaint; homeowner reporting odor on number-2 side, no readings, monitor only.[52]
13:11 — Amherst Fire Dis. — Newstead Engine 7 EMS to 11893 Hunts Corners Road, between Sand Hill Road and Dye Road.[53]
13:16 — East Amherst FD. — 1451 Bullis Road medical-arm activation; 63-year-old male with leg numbness, diabetic; AMR 26 transport.[54]
13:38 — Amherst Fire Dis. — Smoke-detector activation, Deer Lakes Apartments clubhouse, 1410 Deer Lakes Drive, between KMart Drive and Chestnut Ridge Road; Ellicott Creek 9 responding. Nothing showing on arrival; building was evacuated.[55]
09:38 — Wyoming Co. Fire 1. — Additional personnel paged to assist the ambulance with a lift at the Pinewood Apartments, 287 Linwood Avenue.[56]
13:00 — Orleans Co. FD-EMS Paging. — Mercy second-rig sent to a hospice-nurse-on-location call on Alps Road, south side between Goodwin and the Carlton town line.[57]
13:12 — Niagara Co. FD Dispatch. — ALS to 73 South Main Street, Medina, between Francis and South; middle-aged male actively seizing on the sidewalk, possibly after falling from a bicycle.[58]
11:33 — NYSTA Ch. 4. — Two-car PDO at Exit 49 eastbound — white Hyundai Elantra and red Toyota Camry, parked across the road from the exit ramp at the hotel lot on Transit. No injuries.[59]
09:05 — T-Hamburg FD Dsp. — 4543 Camp Rd., apartment 2 — female that fell still needs evaluation, cold response, second ambulance up.[60]