Getzville · 770 Maple Road

Gas Leak Reported at Sturbridge Village Apartments on Maple Road, Getzville Fire Called for the Bravo

At 11:10 PM, Amherst Fire Dispatch toned out Getzville FD for a report of a gas leak at 770 Maple Road, “at the Sturbridge Village”. The dispatcher gave the apartment as 11B and put the assignment out as a Bravo response.

The trunk went quiet in the minutes after — no engine-company reports of smoke, no readings called on the air — and units cleared the incident return channel shortly after arrival. Standard soap-bubble-and-meter check on an apartment call; no evacuation ordered on-air.

Newstead · 13058 Kirby Road

Tree and Transformer on Fire at 13058 Kirby Road, Newstead — Fire Burns Itself Out Before Crews Get to Work

At 3:58 PM, Amherst Fire Dispatch put Newstead FD on “a tree and transformer on fire” at 13058 Kirby Road, between Cedar Street and the town borderline. Newstead’s I-1 announced responding a minute later. By 4:19 PM, dispatch was on the air with the anticlimactic finish: “the fire seems to have burned itself out”, and the homeowner would wait for the utility company. Engine 3 got dropped to a cold response and Newstead was back in service by 4:20 PM.

Amherst · 4799 Harlem Road

Amherst PD Sent to a Group Home on Harlem Road for a Resident Who Wanted the Hospital — and Wanted to Kill His Staff

At 3:17 PM, Amherst dispatched cars to the group home at 4799 Harlem Road: a resident identified on dispatch only as Thomas wanted to go to the hospital, and, in the same breath, “he also wants to kill his staff”. Two units set up: one took the welfare check at Harlem while a partner car covered.

The call did not escalate on the air — no additional cars requested, no mental-hygiene officer paged — which usually means the primary unit talked the resident down and packaged him for EMS on his own. Group-home MH runs on this trunk almost always resolve that way; the note here is the address, which draws recurring PD attention.

Amherst · Niagara Falls Boulevard

Two-Car MVA in Front of the TJ Maxx on Niagara Falls Boulevard, One Patient With Neck Pain

At 5:48 PM, Amherst Fire toned out a motor-vehicle accident at 1501 Niagara Falls Boulevard, in front of the TJ Maxx between Meyer Road and Rowntree Road. Two vehicles were involved and one patient reported neck pain; PD declared “no V&I” on the air a minute later. The stack cleared to routine PDO handling without a request for a second ambulance or extrication.

Swormville / East Amherst · 35 Offshore Drive

Thick Smoke in the Hallway at Dockside Village Apartments Pulls Swormville and East Amherst Fire

At 5:04 PM, Amherst Fire Dispatch put Swormville and East Amherst FD on report of “thick smoke in the hallway” at 35 Offshore Drive, at the Dockside Village Apartments. PD on the second call reported “heavy smoke in the building” in the building. Crews were still stacking channels when the trunk shifted to unrelated PD traffic; the incident cleared without an on-air working-fire declaration.

Amherst · Transit at Transit-Middle

Fifty Canada Geese Called In as a Traffic Hazard at Transit and Transit-Middle

A patrol officer keyed the trunk at 4:10 PM with the day’s cleanest wildlife-report phrasing: “50 Canada Geese in the middle of the road, transit at transit middle” — on Transit Road, right where it meets Transit-Middle. No follow-up on who moved them along; dispatch acknowledged and the trunk moved on to the next EMS call. The regional goose population continues to make its case for tenant status.

Niagara County · Fire Control

A Niagara County EMS Page for an Older Man Who Had a Piece of Chicken Caught in His Throat

Fire Control paged the middle-of-the-night version of an emergency at 2:49 AM: “an old male reporting he has a piece of chicken caught in his throat”. The dispatcher signed off with a BLS priority recommendation and returned Fire Control to clear a minute later — the exact reassuring “here’s a real call, but nothing worse than one bad bite” that keeps rural EMS honest at three in the morning.

Newfane · driver’s follow-up call

The Complainant Called Back to Say He’d Swerved for a Deer and Ended Up in a Ditch — in Newfane

At 6:21 AM, an Amherst officer working the abandoned-vehicle side of an earlier call gave dispatch the driver’s explanation for where he had wandered off to: “he's in Newfane right now on his way back — he swerved over a deer and ended up in a ditch and got stuck”. Nothing more on the air about the deer, the ditch, or how he got un-stuck; the officer promised to transfer the driver back to his residence at 82 Willow Ridge once the paperwork was done.

Snyder · 63 Bentham

Snyder 9-1 Rolls to 63 Bentham, Finds the Culprit Is a Self-Cleaning Oven Doing Its Job

At 5:09 PM, Amherst Fire toned out Snyder 9-1 to 63 Bentham and the response wound down fast: “no active fire, just a self-cleaning oven”, a firefighter on-scene reported, and dispatch closed the loop at 5:27 PM with “smoke was caused from a self-cleaning oven”. If you want to keep a fire company busy on a Saturday afternoon, put a chicken on to broil and forget about it.

UB North Campus · Greiner Hall dumpsters

Getzville Fire Rolls to a Brush Fire at UB’s Greiner Hall — Located, Charmingly, “Near Some Dumpsters”

Amherst Fire Dispatch at 5:54 PM: “Getzville, report of a brush fire — it’s going to be located near some dumpsters”. Then the update at 5:55 PM: brush fire at Greiner Hall[*] on the UB campus. Then, in case anyone had somehow missed it: “BPD reporting the brush fire is near some dumpsters”. Nothing more on-air about the fire itself — the traffic-cop version of the story ends there — but consider the mid-summer UB North Campus dumpster corridor officially on notice.

Southtowns · Evans Center Road

Overnight Tree and Wires Down Across Evans Center Road Starts Its Own Brush Fire; Crews Wait on National Grid

At 2:32 AM, T-Hamburg Fire Dispatch put Union Fire on preliminary assignment 2094 for a “tree and wires down across the roadway starting a brush fire” on Evans Center Road, between Hemlock and West Church. Sheriffs on scene by 2:35 AM called it a large fire; a driver at the scene turned up with a head injury and EMS 9-2 was assigned. Command held it with two engines and cleared the incident at 2:42 AM pending the utility — “we can’t do nothing until we get National Grid here” — with a road-closure request out for West Church at Derby. National Grid handled the wires call; the fire crew stood down and cleared without further escalation.