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False fire alarm at Paul's Pipe Shop in Flint, Flint MI

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Fire & Arson

Reported: 12/18/2025 12:54 PM

Saginaw St, Flint, MI 48502

As discussed during the dispatch call, a fire alarm at Paul's Pipe Shop on South Saginaw Street in Flint sounded multiple times. Fire units responded but found no smoke or fire. The alarm was confirmed as false.

Audio|Heard on: Genesee MI Fire Dispatch Group Calls

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01:16

Transcript:

00:00

Fire alarm at Paul's Pipe Shop,

00:03

near South Saginaw.

00:04

You got a trip on Zone one's Hulk.

00:06

You'll be using your local channel at 5th.

00:10

Flint City Engine 11 channel.

00:13

For a commercial fire alarm near South Saginaw at Paul's Pipe Shop near Third Street.

00:21

They have a fire alarm, Zone one, Smoke.

00:25

You'll be using the local channel, 1555.

00:28

Sorry, you saw Gremlin Township Cartoon Road.

00:34

Cartoon.

00:36

Cartoon. Copy.

00:38

Heavy en route and also two one's IC unseen, no smoke, just a faint odor at this time, 1556.

00:48

Grand Lake Township, Vigiletta, vocation, one, two.

00:53

Tappy, inch eleven on scene, 1557.

00:55

Flint City Engine eleven.

00:57

Go ahead.

00:59

Just be-bays, the alarm company keeps calling with multiple trips, always the same zone number one.

01:06

For Paul's Pipe Shop.

01:08

Eleven, Cappy. We just cleared the scene.

01:11

Call off alarm.

01:13

Okay, Cappy.

01:14

False alarm at sixteen hundred two.

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Saginaw St, Flint, MI 48502

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