Incident reports

A caller reported loose livestock on 1630, about a mile or two past the airport. Dispatchers said they did not have a good location, so the animals' exact position was unclear. The radio traffic did not mention any crash, injuries, or how the call ended.

Officers followed a black Chevrolet Suburban southbound on Interstate 35 past exit 497 after it did not stop for them, with speeds reported around 80 mph. An officer said the driver had first pulled over in an unsafe spot and then drove on, and the radio also described concerns about how the vehicle was staying in its lane. The vehicle later came to a stop, and other responding officers were told they could slow down. No injuries were mentioned on the radio.

An officer reported being on the right-hand shoulder with a blue BMW that had a temporary tag, said a vehicle search was underway, and asked for another officer to come assist. Separately, radio traffic described a silver sedan heading northbound that was drifting out of its lane and braking excessively. The radio did not clearly give locations for either call, and no injuries, road closures or outcomes were mentioned.

A responder on public-safety radio said they were heading northbound and trying to catch up to a gray Charger. The driver was reportedly trying to split lanes and pass between cars. The responder said they were passing "the 488," but the road was not clearly identified. The radio traffic did not mention a crash, injuries, or how the situation ended.

Officers checked on a suspicious vehicle at the Gateway Shell station. A records check on the vehicle's license plate did not show it as stolen, though officers noted the vehicle had a different plate on it previously. A police dog was brought to the scene and did not alert, and officers reported that the driver gave consent. The radio traffic did not say how the stop ended.

Responders were sent to a crash in the Lindsay area, where a small two-horse trailer broke loose from a pickup truck and ended up in the center median on the eastbound side. Responders reported no injuries. Tow trucks were called for the trailer, which was expected to need a flatbed, and for a passenger car. A deputy was asked to block a lane until the tow truck arrived, and the radio did not say when the scene was cleared.

Law enforcement deployed a police dog on a northbound stretch of road just before Spring Creek. About a minute after it was deployed, the dog was reported to have alerted, but the radio traffic did not say what it alerted to. The traffic did not name the road and did not mention any injuries, road closures, or how the stop ended.

A responder was sent to try to locate a dog in the area of what the radio transcript recorded as Tucson Flower Drive. That street name may have been misheard. The radio traffic did not say why the dog was being sought or whether it was found. No injuries or traffic effects were mentioned.

Cooke County dispatchers sent a responder to a report of an animal bite on Wednesday afternoon. The responder acknowledged the call and headed out. The radio traffic did not give a location, say what kind of animal was involved, or describe anyone's condition.

An officer reported a dumpster fire and said they would try to put it out with a fire extinguisher. The officer later radioed that most of the fire had been knocked down and that firefighters had arrived. A case number was assigned to the call. The radio traffic did not give a location or mention any injuries or damage to nearby buildings.

Radio traffic reported a vehicle that could not stay in its lane on FM 51. The vehicle was traveling northbound. An officer gave a position on northbound FM 51 with the report. The radio did not say whether the vehicle was stopped or whether anyone was hurt.

Officers were asked to watch for a white pickup reported driving recklessly northbound on I-35, near mile marker 487. The caller said the driver was swerving across the road, speeding and tailgating. The radio traffic did not mention a crash, injuries, a traffic stop or how the call ended.

A crash involving two vehicles was reported on West Lone Oak Road on Wednesday morning. Emergency crews were sent from a local fire station. The radio traffic did not make clear whether anyone was hurt, whether traffic was blocked, or how the call ended.

Cooke County sheriff's deputies were sent to a disturbance at a home in the county. The people involved were reported to be apart from each other, and two of them were later reported outside the house. A vehicle was reported leaving the property toward Collinsville. The caller then said the people had left and no response was needed, and deputies cleared the call; the radio did not mention any injuries.

Radio traffic asked officers to watch for a 2024 Sierra pickup heading south on Interstate 35. The alert said the truck's front license plate was listed as stolen through the Dallas Police Department. The radio did not say whether officers found the truck or stopped anyone.

An officer tried to pull over an 18-wheeler on U.S. Highway 82 in Cooke County, and the truck did not stop straight away, continuing in the direction of St. Jo. It came to a stop about half a mile west of County Road 361. A state trooper and a back-up officer were at the stop, and the driver was detained while officers searched the vehicle. Radio traffic did not report any crash, injuries, or blocked lanes.

Cooke County medics were dispatched to a medical call, and the radio traffic did not give a location for it or say how it ended. Details about the person involved are being withheld. In separate radio traffic, officers ran radar in the 3500 block of West Highway 82, ran a registration check on a trailer, and one officer reported being at Cloud Street and Grand. No crash, injuries, road blockage or damage to a building was mentioned on the radio.

Emergency responders were sent to a block of North Taylor Street in Gainesville for a medical call. An ambulance crew took one person from the scene, and responders reported themselves clear a short time later. The radio traffic gave no indication that any road was blocked or that a building was involved. Much of the recording was garbled, so no further details could be confirmed.

Emergency crews were sent to a reported single-vehicle crash on southbound Interstate 35 near the 483 mile marker. Radio traffic described the vehicle going into the cable barrier in the center median, and the southbound location was confirmed over the air. A county rescue unit and an ambulance responded. The radio traffic did not say whether anyone was hurt, whether any lanes were blocked, or how the call ended.

Public safety radio traffic reported a citizen assist call on South FM 372. An Amazon delivery driver asked for help after being unable to get through a locked gate. The radio traffic did not say which agency responded, and it reported no injuries, no traffic problems, and no damage to any building. It also did not say how the call was resolved.

Emergency responders were dispatched to a reported traffic hazard on or near 14th Avenue. Radio traffic indicated the hazard was already off the roadway and was not blocking traffic. No injuries and no damage to any building were mentioned. The transcript is machine-generated and part of the location description was garbled, so the exact spot is uncertain.

Gainesville police, firefighters and medics were called to a two-vehicle crash on North Grand at the Walmart entrance near Murphy's on Friday evening. The first report said there were children in the vehicles and that injuries were not yet known. Officers on scene found minor damage to both vehicles and stayed to investigate. One person declined treatment at the scene and no one else needed care.

Responders were sent to County Road 107, about half a mile north of Highway 82, after a report that a crew cutting tree branches had left brush in the roadway. Traffic backed up in the area while the debris was on the road. A responder later spoke with the crew's lead driver, who said the crew would pick up the brush on the way back out. No injuries were mentioned in the radio traffic about the debris.

Someone called in a complaint about a Ford F-150 pickup being driven unsafely near the Frank Buck Zoo. The caller said the truck was speeding, weaving in and out of traffic, and following other vehicles too closely. The radio traffic did not give a clear description of the truck beyond the make and model, and a second street name mentioned in the call was too garbled to confirm. Nothing in the radio traffic said whether anyone was hurt, whether the truck was stopped, or how the call ended.

Fire crews were dispatched to a medical call in the 500 block of North Shopmeyer around midday Friday. In a separate call, officers were sent to a middle school on Lindsay Street for a reported disturbance between a man and a woman, and radio traffic said the two had been separated. No injuries were mentioned in connection with the disturbance, and nothing was said about closed roads or damage to any building. The radio traffic did not say how either call ended.

An ambulance crew and a rescue unit responding to a medical call reported they could not reach the patient at first because a number of dogs were loose in front of the house and on adjoining property. Crews asked for additional responders to stand by in case the dogs became a problem while the patient was moved to the ambulance. Responders reported a short time later that they had reached the patient, and an air ambulance that had been requested was canceled. The radio traffic did not identify the location of the call, and no injuries to responders were mentioned.

Responders were dispatched to a reported gas leak in the 1300 block of East California Street in Gainesville. The radio traffic on this call was brief, and it did not say whether the leak was confirmed, whether anyone was hurt, or whether any building or nearby traffic was affected. Nothing was heard about how the call ended, so this is the one fact the recording supports.

Officers radioed that they were pulling a vehicle over on West California in Gainesville, reading out the vehicle's registration details before making the stop. The radio traffic did not say why the vehicle was stopped. No injuries, road blockage or damage were mentioned, and nothing further was broadcast about how the stop ended.

Someone reported two people walking in the middle of the roadway on a service road south of Livington. A responder answered the call and said they were heading north on the service road to check the area. The radio traffic does not say whether anyone was hurt, and it does not mention any effect on traffic or how the call ended. The street name was unclear on the recording.

Emergency responders checked a possible electrical hazard at a location that was not identified over the radio. They shut off the breakers and reported that no hazards remained at the scene, and the resident was advised to contact an electrician. Crews then cleared the call. The radio traffic did not mention any injuries, damage to the building, or any effect on traffic.

Fire crews were sent to the 700 block of South Weaver Street on Friday morning after a caller reported smoky conditions inside a building and the smell of burning electrical wiring. The caller told dispatchers the building's electrical work had recently been redone. The radio traffic did not mention any injuries, visible flames, or road closures, and it did not say how the call was resolved.

Public-safety radio traffic described a truck that was missing a tire. A responder who checked on it reported that no tire was found anywhere nearby and that the truck was not blocking traffic, so the call was closed out with no further action. The radio traffic did not give a location, and no injuries were mentioned.

Emergency radio traffic reported that another semi-truck had jackknifed and was blocking both lanes, and that it appeared to have hit a trailer. Gainesville police and Gainesville fire were listed alongside Cooke County, Muenster, Lindsay, Valley View and Callisburg responders. The radio traffic did not give a location, did not mention any injuries, and did not say when the road would reopen.

Emergency crews handled an incident involving a semi-truck on a roadway. Radio traffic said the semi was moved out of the roadway and that all vehicles were cleared from the road. Paramedics checked one person, who declined to be taken to a hospital. Fire crews reported clearing the scene; the radio traffic did not say where the incident happened.

Emergency crews responded to a reported hit-and-run collision on Highway 82 involving an 18-wheeler and a black pickup truck. Fire and medical personnel were dispatched to the scene after an automatic system detected an airbag deployment. Callers reported that two individuals from one of the vehicles fled into a nearby wooded area on foot. A heavy wrecker was requested to remove the semi-trailer.

First responders, including fire, police, and EMS personnel, responded to a medical emergency at Body Works Collision on North Grand Avenue. One patient was transported to a local medical center.

A clinic requested an ambulance transport for one patient to NCMC. Radio traffic also mentioned the 400 block of Buttercup, but the transcript is too unclear to confirm what happened there or whether it was part of the same call.

A Gainesville police officer was out with a man who reported being injured, and Cooke County EMS responded. An ambulance took one person to a hospital, and crews reported being released from the scene a short time later. The radio traffic was garbled in places and did not give a location for the call, and nothing in it indicated any road closure, traffic delay or effect on a building.

Emergency crews were dispatched to a medical call on Woodland Court in Gainesville on Thursday evening. Ambulance crews and Gainesville firefighters, including a crew from Station 2, responded and were assisting one person at the scene. The radio traffic does not mention any road closures, damage to a building, or how the call was resolved.

Emergency responders in Cooke County answered a medical call and took one person to North Texas Medical Center. The radio traffic described the trip to the hospital as non-emergency. No street, block or landmark was given for the call, and the radio did not say what prompted it. Apart from the fact of the transport, no further details were available from this traffic.

Emergency responders were dispatched to the Shady Blind Apartments in Gainesville for a medical call. The call involved one person who needed medical help; no details about that person's condition are being released. The radio traffic did not report any road closures or damage to the building, and it did not say how the call ended.

Emergency crews were dispatched for a medical call on South Dixon. Some responding units were later canceled.

Officers stopped a white rollback tow truck on southbound Interstate 35 near mile marker 504, in the area of Hockley Creek, after a report that a black Nissan SUV being hauled on it had been reported stolen. Officers confirmed the SUV by its vehicle identification number and took two people to the county jail; a third person was released and a vehicle was released to them. While the stop was underway, officers were told that a police department in Yukon, Oklahoma had paperwork indicating the SUV had been repossessed, and they were still checking which account was correct. No injuries were mentioned in the radio traffic, and no road or lane closures were reported.

Gainesville firefighters were sent to a commercial sprinkler waterflow alarm at Petroflex on North Interstate 35. A ladder crew responded and the alarm was reported as coming from sprinkler zone 13 in the building. The radio traffic did not mention a fire, any injuries, or any effect on traffic, and did not say how the call ended.

Officers in the Gainesville area were on the lookout for a white 2021 Hyundai SUV reported in connection with a hit-and-run in which a pedestrian was struck. Units set up on the northbound side at Hockley Creek to watch for the vehicle, and another agency was in contact with dispatchers by phone during the search. Radio traffic later said the vehicle had been found just north of Hockley Creek, and an officer made contact at that location. The radio traffic does not say whether the pedestrian was hurt or where the original collision happened.

Public-safety radio traffic described a welfare check on a person found passed out in the driver's seat of a vehicle with the driver's door wide open. The vehicle had a trailer attached, and responders read out the trailer's tag while checking on the scene. The location was given on the radio as Harris, but the street name came through too unclearly to place it precisely. The radio traffic did not say whether anyone was hurt, did not indicate that traffic or any building was affected, and did not say how the call ended.

Fire crews and an ambulance were sent to a medical call at an apartment complex on Warren Street on Wednesday night. Dispatchers first gave responders the wrong complex name over the radio and corrected it a short time later, sending crews to the same building at the correct address. The radio traffic did not say how the call ended, and no road closures, traffic problems or damage to the building were mentioned.

Officers searched around a senior apartment complex in Gainesville overnight while trying to locate an elderly woman. Radio traffic indicates they were working from a previous address for her and checked the north, south, east and west sides of the property. One officer reported finding an apartment's front door standing open, with no one answering at the door. The radio traffic did not say whether the woman was found, and no injuries were mentioned.

Emergency responders were sent to Newport for a welfare check, which is a request for officers to check on someone's wellbeing. That is all the radio traffic supports: it did not say who called, whether anyone was found hurt, or how the call ended. No road closures or damage were mentioned.

Sheriff's deputies, Gainesville police and fire crews responded to a crash at the intersection of Grant and Eldridge. A truck was left in the roadway and was expected to block traffic until fire crews could get in and clear it. Officers reported moderate damage and stayed at the scene to investigate. No injuries were mentioned in the radio traffic from that intersection.