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Pittsburgh Scanner

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Two guys with a couple radios. Always listening to Pittsburgh Police/Fire/EMS.

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South Side Slopes. Salisbury Street. An off-duty cop said she just saw someone lose control of their car, plow over a stop sign, ran into a yard, and just kept going. On-duty PD a few minutes later conducted a traffic stop of the suspect.

Strip District. 90 Eazor Square - City of Pittsburgh Automative Repair Shop. Caller says that someone drove into the doors of the city garage. Driver is potentially intoxicated and being taken to the hospital for evaluation.

South Side. 2950 S Water Street - Spring Hill Suites. Caller said a guy with a mask stole the ass whole ATM. Supposedly loaded it into the back of a Chevy.

Greenfield. Beechwood Blvd. Caller says he’s a repo man and someone tried to attack him with a knife and is trying to cut the straps on the car he hooked up.

Carrick. Clause Ave. Caller said he got drunk in South Side last night and lost his laptop. It’s probably in South Side or in a Lyft. He doesn’t know where to start but sees it’s GPS location.

Brighton Heights. Woods Run Road. Caller says some guy kicked his own dog, the caller said something to him, and then the guy attempted to attack the caller.

Bloomfield. S Winebiddle Street. Caller says that it’s starting to smell like gas in the building. PBF agreed and had a door kicked in and found someone passed out with the gas stove on.

Bloomfield. Penn Ave. After conducting a traffic stop on an older guy in an electric wheelchair, they found out he has warrants and stole something near by. The city's wheelchair van is broke down so they're trying to find another agency or a flatbed to take it to ACJ with him

East Liberty. 6231 Penn Ave - Target. A state constable is requesting assistance after he saw a known shoplifter deck a loss prevention staff member after being confronted.

Carrick. 2150 Brownsville Road - PNC Bank. Bank reported a hold up alarm. Most of the zone responded at the highest rate of response and it ended up being someone tripped it by accident.

North Shore. 106 Isabella Street - Citizens Bank. PD are responding to a bank robbery. A male about 5 foot 7 and a skeleton halloween mask put a six shot revolver in a clerks face and had her full up a gym bag. He also took her cell phone.

Shadyside. Walnut Street. Caller says that there is a table setup by an organization asking for donations. Caller says that they are making people who walk past them feel bad. Caller does not like this.

The county has been having trouble with their radio system all afternoon. There have been a lot of bad transmissions and phone calls into the dispatcher desks.

South Side. South River Front Trail. A cop was on a foot patrol of the trail and said he was flagged down by people in one of the luxury apartment complexes and said that homeless tents have been popping up. They want them removed by the city.

Oakland. 219 Parkman Ave - Chevron Science Building. Pitt Police calling in saying that an undergrad got hydrochloric acid on his face during a chemistry lab and he's having a severe reaction.

Downtown. 960 Penn Ave - Small World Learning Center. Caller reports multiple people are reporting chest pain and breathing trouble. Hazmat is sent from the other incident downtown to this location now.

Sheraden. Sherwood Street. Cops called out that they heard shots fired. Police find two people shot. Witnesses indicated about 8 people ran up on the victims.

Cops say they think they know the location of a second shooter. They’re concerned they might have a scanner. They moved operations to the encrypted channel.

Sheraden. Sherwood Street. Cops called out that they heard shots fired. Police find two people shot. Witnesses indicated about 8 people ran up on the victims.

Police say that they have the incident on camera. The shooter is suspected to be wearing a hoodie or jacket with the word “Problem” on the front.

Green Tree. 875 Green Tree Road - Holiday Inn. Green Tree PD requesting city help with a woman meeting up with a guy met on an app. She was beaten and robbed. Everyone is still reportedly in the building.

Highland Park. Under the Highland Park Bridge. Animal Control called in and said that they have a pelican which escaped from the Pittsburgh Zoo and it's swimming in the river. They would like River Rescue to help get it back.

Downtown. Third Ave - Third Ave Gym. Caller says that boxers from another gym showed up and are trying to cause trouble with the local gym coach. Caller is concerned that everyone is going to start swinging.

Downtown. 500 Ross Street - BNY Mellon. Caller is with security and says that an employee got stuck in a revolving door. They are requesting FD and EMS Rescue.

Strip District. Hopper Place. Caller says that someone is trying to park in the middle of Pumpkin Fest. They need help in getting them to leave or just to tow the car.

Crawford-Roberts. Wyandotte Street. Caller said that a woman fell outside and needs help. The call taker noted the caller then began yelling and threatening implying that "if this was another neighborhood you would be here faster" causing medics and fire to stage for PD.

The cops have attended numerous road traffic incidents today, including drivers striking pedestrians and various other driver on driver crashes. Be careful if you're out there.

Brighton Heights. Brighton Ave at Benton Ave. A crossing guard called out that a driver of a vehicle struck a student and the student is injured.

Police arrived on scene. The kid is bleeding from the head, medics requested. PD also said that it was a driver of a school van which struck the kid.

East Hills. Wilner Drive. After a 18 round high capacity shot spotter notification, a couple calls came in saying an individual was struck by gunfire.