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MISSING JUVENILE — AMHERST
Mom Reports 13-Year-Old Missing in the Woods; Patrol Notes a Knife at School and a Jump from a Moving Vehicle
Amherst PD worked the call for more than an hour, with dispatch describing the party as autistic and last seen in a blue Subaru with a Sarah B.B.
At 09:03 Saturday morning Amherst PD took a missing-juvenile call from a mother who reported her 13-year-old son had come home from a friend's house, dropped his backpack, and left again, possibly into the woods.[1] By 10:06 the assigned unit was reading back the context that gave the call its weight: the party has autism, was likely with a Sarah in a blue Subaru, and had “likely took a knife to school and also jumped out of a moving vehicle” in earlier incidents.[2] The transmission is itself a dispatcher's tidy summary of why this particular runaway was being handled with more than the usual care — the autism context, the recent behavioral escalation, and the suspected travel companion all pointed in the same direction. No air-side report of a recovery surfaced in the window, but the patrol traffic moved off the call after the 10:06 readback, suggesting the unit had a workable lead.
DOMESTIC ASSAULT — AMHERST
Daughter Punched Mother in the Face at 237 Bernhardt Drive, Then Walked Off Toward Grandma's House on Lamarack
A 30-year-old female on foot in a white sweatshirt with a French bulldog — Amherst PD tracked her toward 182 Lamarack and confirmed charges would follow.
Dispatch keyed up at 11:29 with the substance of the call — “It's a 237 Bernhardt Drive. The daughter punched the mom in the face and left on foot.”[3] The unit added that the suspect was a 30-year-old female and that her destination might be 182 Lamarack, where her grandmother lives.[3] Through the next ten minutes the patrol unit pieced together a remarkably specific description: pink sweatshirt, then a correction to white sweatshirt, a French bulldog with her, and a license plate — Mary-Charlie-Union 5602 — tied to a 2010 Hyundai Accent registered to a male out of Buffalo.[4][5][6] At 11:36 the unit reported back that “she kind of just flipped the switch here and freaked out and left, so he's cautious,” and that “we will have charges, though” before staging at the grandmother's address.[7][8] The reporting party at Bernhardt asked only that the subject “just leave;” arrest paperwork hadn't been read out by the close of the window.
SUSPICIOUS FIRE ALARM — WILLIAMSVILLE
Main-Transit, Snyder, and Williamsville Get a Full Alert 2 / Alarm 3 at 12:55 — The “Active Fire” Turns Out to Be a Garbage Can
A second call came in from Williamsville before the run number was even set; Williamsville 2 was held back, Williamsville 1 ran the trash can to ground.
At 12:55 Amherst Fire dispatch transmitted the full multi-station box: “Main Transit, Snyder, Williamsville, you have alert 2, alarm 3.”[9] Two minutes later the dispatcher flagged that “Williamsville is second” with a second call coming in, and the staging order shifted to wait for the 9-5 unit.[10] By 13:03 the box closed itself out at the lowest possible severity: “You did find the garbage can fire. You're going to hold with Williamsville 1. Williamsville 2, you can return to quarters.”[11] The alert remained technically active for a few minutes longer while mutual aid units were placed back in service.[12] That's two refuse-can fires in two days for the home zone — this morning's PM brief follows yesterday's airfield trash-can-fire that triggered an airport Alert 2 at BNIA.
FIRE ALARM — EGGERTSVILLE
Homewood Suites at 1138 Millersport Highway Toned at 13:38 — Detectors at Zero, Building Power Still Out, Marked Faulty
Eggertsville Fire worked the run for ten minutes before dispatch closed it as a faulty detector with no readings.
Amherst Fire dispatch toned a general fire alarm at 1138 Millersport Highway, the Homewood Suites in Eggertsville, at 13:38 Saturday afternoon.[13] Patrol units on scene had trouble making contact with the building — the exterior door wasn't responding to knocks and Amherst PD ran resident phone numbers for apartments 1 and 2, noting that the parties at one of the apartments “may have been evicted back in December.”[14][15] Once Eggertsville got inside, the detector readings came in at zero with the building's power still out in the area — the call was closed as “faulty detection” by 13:46.[16] Eggertsville cleared as “working at 1130” by 13:48.[17]
EMS — AMHERST FALL CALL
90-Year-Old Male Down in His Garage at 7 Manor Oak Drive — Facial Injuries, Ellicott Creek Toned
Amherst Fire dispatch keyed up with a candid editorial note about the address before reading the call.
At 12:10 Amherst Fire dispatched Ellicott Creek and the AMS ambulance to 7 Manor Oak Drive, off North Sweetwood, for a 90-year-old male who had fallen in the garage with facial injuries.[18][19] The dispatcher's preamble — “I like a Greek name, that's called Seven Manor Oak Drive” — is in the radio record verbatim, a rare moment of the call-taker editorializing on the street name before reading the run.[18] No follow-up regarding transport priority surfaced on the channel.
EMS — AMHERST STONEGATE
89-Year-Old Female Unconscious but Breathing at 4136 Stonegate Lane, Building 16, Stonegate Apartments
Dispatch's first attempt at the cross street — “K-Lane Lane and Katie Lane” — was politely corrected to Killane Lane on the second readback.
At 14:30 Amherst Fire toned the Harris Hill Fire and AMS unit to 4136 Stonegate Lane, the Stonegate Apartments building 16, for an 89-year-old female reported unconscious but breathing.[20][21] The dispatcher's first attempt at the cross streets came out as “K-Lane Lane and Katie Lane;” on the readback seconds later the call was corrected to “Killane Lane and Katie Lane,” the alliteration intact.[20][21]
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WHAT THE…?!
“B-3-5, We Have to Cut the Smoke Wall at the TCO.”
The single transmission of the morning on the Sports Venues trunk came from HMS Security at 09:20, and it is, end-to-end, “B-3-5, we have to cut the smoke wall at the TCO.”[22] No context preceded it, none followed, and the channel went silent for the rest of the window. Whatever a smoke wall is, the TCO had one, and HMS had to cut it. The Listening Post is keeping the radio on this one.
SPOKEN-WORD HOUR
BuffaloLimo, 07:02 — “With the Gun Ranges, You Know That Curve? You Ended Up by the Trees, He's on the Hood, or on the Roof, Which Is a Firetruck That Ranges Straight Up.”
The first thirty seconds of Saturday's BuffaloLimo trunk read like the opening of a road-trip podcast.[23][24][25][26][27] An unidentified driver, talking to whoever was on the other end, narrated — in five separate, consecutive keys — a route past gun ranges, a curve, a man on the hood or roof of something, a firetruck that “ranges straight up,” and the conclusion “some of these jobs… for your own.” Whisper transcription artifact or genuine 7 a.m. monologue, this is the most BuffaloLimo content possible.
SUSPECT DESCRIPTION
“She Should Be with a French Bulldog. She's Out Walking.”
The Amherst PD officer searching for the Bernhardt Drive assault suspect at 11:36 added the dog into the BOLO — a 30-year-old in a white sweatshirt with a French bulldog, walking the half-mile to her grandmother's house on Lamarack.[7] The most specific identifying detail of any Amherst PD call all morning was the breed of the dog.
HAM RADIO HOUR
FRS 16, 13:11 — “They Fixed My Antenna for Me So I Can Get Out Again. It's the 99…”
Two FRS frequencies surfaced today, both apparently the same neighborhood-radio circle.[28][29] The 13:11 transmission was an enthusiastic announcement of antenna repair from a hobbyist, cut off mid-sentence at “It's the 99…,” presumably the model. The morning transmission on FRS 15 at 08:16 was, in full: “Canada, how about ya?”[30] Western New York's amateur-radio hour is alive.
FAMILY MEDICINE
“Daughter Checking on Richard Solomon, Who Is a Known Alcoholic. She Hasn't Heard from Him in a Day.”
At 13:55 an Amherst PD unit relayed the welfare-check context to dispatch with the kind of candor that doesn't make it into police paperwork: an unknown room number at the Homewood Suites alarm site, a daughter calling in, and a father identified by name and habit.[31] The call was at the same address Eggertsville Fire had just toned for a fire alarm — the two threads almost certainly converged on the same apartment.
AIRFIELD DIPLOMACY
American Airlines Ramp, 11:14 — “You Always Call for a Fight.”
An American Airlines ramp agent at BNIA broke from the day's gate-and-bag chatter at 11:14 with a one-line characterization of his radio partner.[32] Twenty minutes later a JetBlue Ramp agent on the same Site trunk transmitted what sounds like a free-form aside — “about the Iraq Embassy and said that people born in Iraq doesn't need a…” — before signing off with “Ta-ra.”[33][34] Same trunk, two airlines, two unrelated commentaries; the radio is a place to think out loud.
PUBLIC SERVICE
“Passed By Reports Appears to Be a Homeless Female Sweeping in the Bus Stop Shelter.”
Amherst PD, 08:39, location 675 Labrador Wegmans.[35] The passing motorist who reported it framed the call as a complaint; the woman was, by the dispatcher's reading, cleaning the bus shelter. Standard 10-4-4 acknowledgement, no follow-up. A 9-1-1 call for civic improvement.
DISPATCHER'S NOTEBOOK
“I Like a Greek Name, That's Called Seven Manor Oak Drive…”
Amherst Fire's call-taker at 12:10 keyed up to send the EMS run for the 90-year-old garage fall with a moment of personal review for the address.[18] Manor Oak is, as far as the Listening Post can determine, not Greek. The thought is what counts.
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BRUSH FIRE — HAMBURG
Amazon at 3920 Bayview Road Tones a Brush Fire at 12:36 — T-Hamburg FD Stages at the Beebe Road Entrance Where the Vans Are Parked
Standard fulfillment-center brush-fire response; no expansion on the channel.
Town of Hamburg Fire Dispatch sent Mary Simon — the Amazon delivery station at 3920 Bayview Road — a brush-fire response at 12:36, with the call-taker noting the right side of the property and instructing 119 to enter off Beebe Road, “where the vans are parked.”[36][37] No follow-up traffic flagged escalation. The combination of a fenced fulfillment center and a wood-line behind it makes early-summer brush activations a Hamburg constant.
Other Calls of Note
[08:23] Amherst Fire toned a must-call EMS run to 10442 Main Street, Clarence, between Hillcrest and Alexander, for a 50-year-old female dizzy with abdominal pain.[38]
[07:16] Amherst PD took a welfare check at the Candlewood Suites, 20 Flint Road, room 308, for a male resident described as “very forgetful, wandering around, can't find his room.”[39]
[07:46] NC FD Dispatch toned 6849 Plaza Drive, Wheatfield Towers, apartment 209, for a 72-year-old female who fell from standing.[40][41]
[08:33] Amherst PD took an EMS call at 227 Cadman, an 84-year-old female with dementia found on the floor by the agent.[42]
[09:58] BFD Ch1 dispatched 347 to 120 April Morrow, St. Mark's Manor, between Roche and Vulcan, for a commercial alarm activation.[43]
[10:05] Town of Hamburg FD toned 6201 Lake Avenue and 201 Lake Avenue (right side) for a 17-year-old female with a seizure.[44][45]
[11:45] Town of Hamburg FD reported 07 Homehurst Road, between Pennhurst and Hazelwood, looking for a black GMC Denali, plate 56RM.[46]
[12:51] Amherst PD took a commercial alarm activation at 1404 Sweet Home Road, Suite 8 — Financial Group, front motion.[47]
[12:57] Amherst Fire cleared a 5447 Main Street CPS-relayed welfare call — did not speak to anyone directly.[48]
[13:38] Amherst PD ran phone numbers for 1661 Millersport, apartments 1 and 2, while Eggertsville Fire worked the Homewood Suites alarm.[49]
[14:09] NC FD Dispatch toned the Burt-Olcott Tri-Community unit to 25-72 Niagara Road, east of the Holy Ghost Cemetery, for a 77-year-old male in and out of consciousness, last seen this morning.[50][51]
[14:09] Lancaster FD toned 62 Northwood Drive for an 80-year-old male fall from standing, out front.[52]
[14:33] EC CW EMS toned 620 Grover Road, corrected on readback to 162 Grover Road, with a 14-minute ETA.[53]
[14:37] CFD Disp toned 3737 Union Road — transcribed as “at a shoot between Galleria Drive” — with no further radio traffic in the window.[54]
[14:42] NC FD Dispatch toned 322 Evergreen Drive (Maplewood / Old Beatty Road) for an 80-year-old male fall from standing, not injured.[55]
[11:33] WyoCo Fire 1 staged at 3028 Royce Road, between Centerline and Gulf, on a Beresberg-airwaves medical relay.[56][57]
[07:33] FEFD Disp toned a monitored alarm, zone 1 commercial building, 733 (address truncated on the channel).[58]
[07:22] Cheektowaga FD Dispatch toned EMS to 34 Strasburg, lower, west side between 5th and 6th, for a 64-year-old female with difficulty breathing and a cardiac history.[59]
[09:20] ECC Public Safety reported beginning foot patrol of G building, Erie Community College City Campus.[60]