Around the Neighborhood
Williamsville, Amherst, Clarence —
What the…?!
Chipotle CO2 Cartridge Trips Fire Alarm at Lightman’s Plaza[1][2][3][4][5]
Eggertsville crews roll on 675 Alberta Drive at 8:05 a.m. and find a beverage-system carbon-dioxide leak setting off smoke heads.
Amherst Fire dispatched on a commercial fire-alarm activation at 675 Alberta Drive — Lightman’s plaza, between Amsterdam Avenue and Maple Road — with a second tone-out for the East Amherst response two minutes later.[1][2] Twenty minutes after that, the channel cleared things up: “Regarding Chipotle, it ended up being … fully ventilating. Looks clear. It was a carbon dioxide leak.”[3][4] Dispatch followed with a useful field memo to the plaza’s working contractors: “Advise contractors to cover these smoke heads until they are done working for the day.”[5] Eggertsville unit back in service by 8:30.
Amherst PD Detains Subject With Buffalo ERPO Hanging Over Her[6][7][8]
2:35 p.m. detain after officers learn the party has an open Extreme Risk Protection Order from a Buffalo case — allegedly threatened to shoot a female and fired five-to-six rounds in a front yard.
Per Amherst PD radio traffic, an officer paused at 2:33 p.m. to flag “an ERPO from Buffalo that has yet to be served.”[6] Two minutes later: “Time for one detained. There’s a note on here from a Buffalo call that the party threatened to shoot a female in the past and then was seen shooting five to six shots in her front yard, so possibly in possession of a firearm in the past.”[7] The subject was identified on the air as a person born 5-14-04; an officer-safety advisory went out ahead of transport.[8] No firearm was reported recovered on the channel during the window. Names withheld pending verification.
Bike Rodeo Bites Back at Heim Elementary[9][10][11]
A young rider takes a header at the school’s CMX bike rodeo — 155 Heim Road — conscious and breathing but with a head injury.
An Amherst officer called in just before 8:44 a.m. from Heim Elementary: “They have a CMX bike rodeo, and one of the riders just had a nasty fall … a little head injury. Conscious breathing.”[9] Walking up to the child a moment later, the officer added, “Breathing and semi-alert.”[10] Amherst Fire toned Melanie to the EMS call at 155 Heim Road; Twin City 236 transported to Erie County Medical Center.[11] Helmet weather, Williamsville.
Developing
Lockdown Drill at Transit Middle Pulls Cars From Patrol[12]
An Amherst PD supervisor checks who’s onsite for the announced drill, 12:36 p.m.
Mid-day, Radio 2 asked over Amherst-Clarence: “Anyone at the lockdown drill at Transit Middle?”[12] Routine scheduled school exercise; no real-world incident was paired to the traffic on the channel.
Strong Gas Odor Inside 7270 Goodrich, Clarence FD Isolates[13][14][15][16]
Clarence FD plus mutual aid from Clemson and Marion respond just after 10:36 a.m.; gas is shut off by 11:03.
Clarence dispatched on the odor of natural gas inside a residence at 7270 Goodrich Road, at St. Lap and Wolcott (per the on-air street-name read).[13][14] A caller was “reporting a strong load of natural gas inside the home.”[15] Clemson and Marion responded; National Fuel was advised to head out, and at 11:03 a unit reported, “Isolated the gas.”[16] No injuries logged on the channel.
Purse Snatched From Vehicle at Whitechapel Cemetery[17]
1:51 p.m., 3210 Niagara Falls Boulevard — victim meets the officer in the lot.
Amherst PD: “I’m at Whitechapel Cemetery, 3210 Niagara Falls Blvd… meeting a female there in the lot. Her purse was taken from the vehicle.”[17] Walk-in larceny report; no suspect description aired on the channel.
Williamsville EMS at Comprehensive Rehab on Reist Street[18]
10:32 a.m., 147 Reist Street — cardiac chest pain call at the rehab facility.
Amherst Fire dispatched: “Williamsville EMS call, 147 Reist Street, Comprehensive Rehab.”[18] Standard medical run at a facility that’s a regular on this channel; nothing notable on radio after the transfer.
YMCA & Elderwood: Fire Alarm Hat-Trick Across the Morning[19][20][21][22][23][24]
Three fire-alarm activations between 8:51 and 9:11 a.m. on commercial occupancies in Williamsville and East Amherst — all benign.
Main-Transit YMCA at 150 Tech Drive set off its commercial panel at 8:51, between Main and Wehrle.[19][20] At 8:54, Elderwood Village at 245 Bassett Road reported a Room 83 smoke-detector activation between Hallmark Court and St. Gregory’s; alarm company called back at 8:57 with the unsurprising root cause: “Member on site is reporting vaping.”[21][22][23] A third panel kicked at 9:11 with a wire-malfunction reset and AFI follow-up requested.[24] All three back in service by mid-morning.
Beacon Park EMS Goes Out With a “Twin City Very Low Resources” Tag[25][26]
9:34 a.m. tone-out at 6 Beacon Park — a 94-year-old female who needed help being transferred.
Amherst Fire toned a hold-response EMS call for a Beacon Park condo off Skinner Hill Road, with the on-air aside that “Twin Cities very low resources” was driving the routing.[25] By 9:55 the channel cleared it: “Resident has been assisted, Gretel is back in service.”[26] Worth flagging because the ambulance-availability shoutout is itself the news.
Overheard: The Wires
The signal’s noise —
Daily Gem
Doves Down. Repeat: Doves Down on Harlem Road[27][28]
1:45 p.m., Amherst PD: “Checking the area of 4060 Harlem Road for two large loose doves.”
The transmission is, somehow, that simple. “Checking the area of 4060 Harlem Road for two large loose doves.”[27] “Turn 4,” came the reply.[28] No further bulletins; whether the doves were located, contained, or simply complimented on their plumage is not a matter the Amherst-Clarence trunk wishes to disclose.
UB Begs Amherst PD to Help “Dispatch One of These Mangy Foxes”[29]
1:12 p.m. — the University of Buffalo’s rolling fox problem is now a regional procurement issue.
An Amherst PD officer, mid-radio: “We’ll be out 10-7. As soon as I’m done, I’m going to call UB back — they’re asking for my assistance to try and dispatch one of these mangy foxes.”[29] Earlier in the morning a complainant on Apple Field had been logged saying she hadn’t seen The Fox for about half an hour. By afternoon, “The Fox” appears to have been deemed plural.
Two Dogs Hold the Parking Lot at the School-Beside-the-Church[30][31][32]
1:52 p.m. — Amherst PD discovers, by accident, that the school dog isn’t the only dog.
An officer: “I have from the school here. I have the dog in the parking lot here, but it’s not going in the car, so I’ll just hold on to it with them until 55 gets here.”[30] Location given as “the school attached to the church on Saratoga.”[31] Six seconds later, the kicker from dispatch: “The initial call was two dogs, so see another one, let me know.”[32] Resolution: “Just the one for now.” The other one, presumably, is still at large.
The Cyclist Counting Bills on Delwood Drive[33][34][35]
11:30 a.m., Amherst PD logs a suspicious-person report that reads more like a noir prologue.
Dispatch: “Suspicious person, 10 Ivyhurst Road — they’re now on Delwood, two driveways down from Longmeadow. A black male with a white sweatshirt wearing a black backpack on a bike.”[33][34] Then the line that turned a wellness check into a piece of theater: “He was counting some money after going up and down driveways in the area.”[35] Officer 15 went undercover. The call was closed before lunch.
Reist Street, Translated[36]
A small footnote on the air: Amherst Fire calls Comprehensive Rehab in by name — the address still got mangled.
The 10:32 EMS tone-out for “147 Reise/Reece/Reist” landed correctly because everyone on the channel knew where Comprehensive Rehab was.[36] Whisper’s ongoing inability to handle the German-origin street names of WNY is the running gag of this newsletter. Reist Street has now lived through six variants; locals appear unbothered.
EC Sheriff Patrol Says “I Love You” Twice on the Open Channel[37][38]
8:26 a.m., one second apart, both transmissions on Amherst-Clarence simulcast.
Whether deputy-to-deputy, deputy-to-phone, or the radio reading back what it heard in stereo, the channel logged two consecutive transmissions: “I love you.” “I love you.”[37][38] A duplicate-segment artifact of the trunked system, or two genuine signoffs — either way, the audit comes out the same: love confirmed, copy that.
Regional Blotter
WNY-wide —
Hess Road Diabetic Crisis Toned Twice in Six Minutes[39][40][41]
Niagara County Fire Control dispatched Olcott Fire and EMS at 7:41 a.m. to 1860 Hess Road between West Avenue and East Lake Road for a 20-year-old female with nausea, difficulty breathing, and a blood sugar reading of 365 (down from 468).[39][40] ALS priority was recommended; County EMS-23 was added cold to the area at 7:47.[41] Second tone-out clarified the dispatched address.
BNIA Vans Dispatcher to Kanye-Aware Driver[42]
On the Simulcast trunk at 9:38 a.m., a BNIA Vans dispatcher confirmed routing with the world’s shortest landmark check: “You know where Kanye is, right?”[42] Right turn followed; clearance to the lot was issued. Buffalo Niagara’s morning bag run continued without further celebrity reference.
U.S. Coast Guard Reads the Notice-to-Mariners Slot, Live and at Length[43][44][45]
Marine 22A-1022 took the floor for the better part of an hour starting 11:00 a.m., reading sailing-vessel and racecourse notices for Cleveland Yacht Club and Edgewater Yacht Club on Lake Erie, plus a Lake Ontario fireworks broadcast for May 23.[43][44] Light List Number 1225 was logged as displaying reduced intensity.[45] Mariners are advised, as always, to exercise extreme caution.
Cheektowaga PD Reports a Dumpster That Will Not Move[46]
9:43 a.m., Cheektowaga PD radio: “West Side Street between Coroner [Corona] and Broadway, heard a dumpster that’s been in the road for a few days.”[46] An ongoing, immobile complaint. No tow logged on the channel.
Tonawanda Fire EMS — “The Familiar Face”[47]
TonwndaFDisp at 10:23 a.m.: “Abby 2, we’re responding for the familiar face, 10-23.”[47] A frequent-flyer EMS call at 150 Delaware, Apartment 1, handled without further drama.
Other Calls of Note
- 07:08 · Amherst Fire — EMS at 920 Robin Road (Brewster Mews), 43-year-old male with cardiac chest pain; some background yelling noted by the responding officer.[48][49]
- 07:20 · NC Fire — 81-year-old at 2956 Old Heath / OT Drive between Eric and Ward in Niagara County, third-party caller reporting female unresponsive in bed.[50]
- 07:22 · Amherst PD — Harlem Road BOLO for one Eugene Trevor (black jacket, black jeans, hat, glasses) headed on foot toward CVS; trespass status verified at 7-Eleven (none on file) but on file at Crosby’s and Global Wine & Spirits.[51][52]
- 07:50 · Amherst PD — Older April incident reopened: a residence where children were reportedly left alone, one infant and a 9-year-old with autism; reviewed for follow-up.[53]
- 08:02 · Amherst Fire — EMS at 2330 Maple Road in Amberley (Apt. 207) for an 82-year-old male.[54]
- 09:07 · FEFD — Medical at 3181 Poplar Avenue (Cook/Gordon) for a 65-year-old male DSA at 0907.[55]
- 09:27 · NC Fire — 3990 Forest Parkway, Apt. 109, 76-year-old male with two recent unwitnessed falls, hand and head pain; struck-head status unknown.[56]
- 10:46 · Amherst Fire — Residential alarm activation at 5556 Pine Lock Lane (East Amherst, Oakleaf/Roll), rear-bedroom smoke detector via the alarm company.[57]
- 10:55 · Amherst Fire — EMS at 8099 Sheridan Drive Apt. 205 (Ledge Lane / Transit area, originally toned “Harrisville”), 65-year-old male with increased heart rate.[58][59]
- 11:12 · Amherst PD — Order-of-Protection-related belongings retrieval, 239 Quail Hollow, complainant in a white Dodge Ram.[60]
- 11:30 · Genesee County FD — Altered level of consciousness call, 940 Johnson Road.[61]
- 11:35 · Clarence FD — 36-year-old female suffering a seizure; high-view EMS for unit 46.[62]
- 12:54 · NC Fire — Niagara Active and Mercy to 1414 Seneca Parkway for an 82-year-old female, decreased level of consciousness, ALS priority.[63]
- 14:03 · Amherst PD — MVA inquiry on Young Street near Sharon Key: “Do you think he blacked out before the accident?” Amherst Fire on location with PD.[64][65]
- 14:23 · NYSTA Ch 4 — Westbound thruway, “possible car fire — do not see any flames, but the fire…” (transmission cut). No further detail on the channel.[66]