Bear spray empties Jackson hotel lobby; emergency traffic declared during late-night stop on WY-22

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• Bear spray discharged in hotel lobby; 11 people affected area, one treated. At 09:45 dispatch relayed a third-party report that bear spray went off in the lobby of the "Elk Country" property (TG 1801/1807). Medic 10, Station 1 and law enforcement responded; dispatch counted 11 people in the lobby, one woman with eye irritation. By 09:56 Battalion 6 reported one possible patient being irrigated in a shower and no further resources needed.
• Emergency traffic declared during stop on WY-22. At 23:11 dispatch broadcast a driving complaint on WY-22 from Skyline — tailgating, flashing lights, unsafe passing — first described as a black Pontiac. Unit 44 stopped the vehicle near the Y at 23:12; dispatch declared emergency traffic (all non-emergency to another channel) and lifted it at 23:15. Three occupants were run, a firearm was mentioned [suspect], one person was detained, and one party returned as respondent in two protection orders. The Idaho plate later came back to a 1993 Buick Regal (23:35) — correcting the Pontiac description. Final disposition not heard on air.
• Game & Fish sent on overnight shooting report in Buffalo Valley. At 09:51 a WYDOT-side dispatcher (TG 6403) asked GF34 to handle a law-enforcement call: a shooting reported around 02:00–02:30 behind the Hart Six Guest Ranch [name low-confidence], Buffalo Run area, Buffalo Valley. No further detail and no outcome aired.
• Vehicle vs. elk blocks US-89 near MM 176 late. At 23:29 dispatch reported multiple unanswered pages to the park for a car-vs-elk crash at roughly MM 176 on US-89 — no injuries apparent but road blockage, a white GMC with significant damage and a smoking hood. WHP was committed to a rollover in Lincoln County, so a sheriff's unit took the crash and a tow was started (23:34); at 23:43 WYDOT was still checking whether fire/EMS had arrived.
• Attempt-to-locate for missing elderly driver. At 20:50 (TG 6403) a bulletin went out for a man in his 80s with Alzheimer's, last seen at 18:00 on 10/18, driving a silver 2018 Chevy Impala with a Wyoming county-10 plate. Point of origin unclear — may not be a Teton County case.
• Downtown hotel evacuated on fire alarm; no hazard found. At 00:31 Engine 11 and a battalion chief were paged to a Center Street hotel (transcribed "Cloudvale," likely Cloudveil) for a commercial fire alarm; a guest reported the whole hotel alarming and was told to evacuate, with no contact at the front desk. By 01:19 command reported no hazard — likely a water-damaged sensor — and guests were allowed to reoccupy.

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A heavy records day: roughly 28 plate checks and 32 name/license checks, plus seven logged traffic stops ending mostly in verbal warnings, with a speed citation (16:41), a no-valid-license citation (20:11) and a controlled-substance cite after a REDDI report and field sobriety tests on the truck route (20:41–21:28). Overnight units processed an apparent arrest with a PBT of 0.232 relayed and a firearm secured in a vehicle [suspect]; a bar disturbance at the Cowboy Bar ended in one cite-and-release (00:27–00:54). Animal traffic included cows out at MM 55 US-191, an injured moose referred to Grand Teton interagency, a buck deer loitering in a Coyote Loop corral, and a three-hour barking-dog complaint on East Simpson. Parking complaints: wildlife-watchers blocking a lane, a blocked driveway on West Hanson, and unauthorized equipment near Cottonwood Park. START buses dealt with a Miller Park detour, headsign/login glitches, and a wedding charter parked in their Miller Park spot. A hospital burglar alarm (employee error), a fire alarm at Station 1 itself ("clicking incident," reset), a hotel medical transport to St. John's, and a non-extraditable Kansas warrant hit rounded out the day.

By the numbers

1,653 transmissions across 479 exchanges (plus 218 short status-only exchanges omitted). Busiest talkgroup: TG 1801 Teton County law dispatch (1,186 transmissions); busiest hour: 20:00–21:00 (193). Categories: status 177, unclassified 157, records-check 32, plate-check 28, traffic-complaint 21, medical 20, animal 14, traffic-stop 7, fire 5, alarm 5, transit 4, crash 3, noise-parking 2, hazard 2, welfare 2.

Caveats

• Significant out-of-county traffic in the log: TG 13751 is Fremont County EMS paging (Lander), and most TG 109 WHP complaints were I-80 traffic near Rock Springs/Evanston/Lyman — none of that is Teton County activity. The 20:50 missing-person bulletin may also originate elsewhere in the region.
• Proper names are unreliable in this transcript: "Cloudvale/Cloudville/Plowville" hotel, "Elk Country" (lobby incident vs. Elk Country Inn), "vocabulary bar" (almost certainly the Cowboy Bar), and "Hart Six Guest Ranch" are all best-guess readings.
• The Buffalo Valley shooting report and the WY-22 emergency-traffic stop both ended without an on-air disposition; status unknown as of end of log.