Fire alarm at residential address found to be false, Shaker Heights OH

Fire & Arson

Reported: 10/28/2025 07:20 PM

Near Fernway Rd, Shaker Heights, OH 44120

Fire units responded to a residential fire alarm near Fernway Rd in Shaker Heights. On arrival, no fire or smoke was found. The alarm was determined to be a malfunction. Fire units cleared the scene.

Audio|Source: Shaker Heights, University Heights and Cleveland Heights Fire Dispatch

02:48

Transcript:

00:00

Take our heads prepared a copy a fire alarm, foreign way.

00:13

Attention,

00:14

Shaker Heights Fire Alarm[1], House, Units,

00:18

263, 15,

00:19

2117,

00:21

216, 246. Respond to near Fernway Rd, Shaker Heights.

00:31

4.5-Rout.

00:36

Copy 215 in route.

00:43

Two-16 rolling.

00:47

Copy 216 in-rout.

00:50

246 in route.

00:54

246 in route.

00:56

26 to all companies.

01:02

You have 1,500 to 1,000 to 1,500 in that area, 1,500.

01:06

Dispatch, 263 in route.

01:09

263 in route.

01:12

Dispatch.

01:13

7-A-Routh.

01:15

Copy 217 in route.

01:17

Dispatch 263.

01:20

263, go.

01:26

Per the alarm company, they received an electronic acknowledgment, someone's on the scene.

01:33

But you're on route near Fernway Rd crosses Ardmore, Avalon, Kitch and Smoke.

01:39

Yeah.

01:45

Dispatch,

01:47

263 on scene,

01:49

small,

01:50

two-story house.

01:53

I got nothing showing from three sides.

01:55

We'll investigate 263, we'll have Fernway command.

01:59

Happy 263, I'm seeing the small two-story house, nothing showing three sides.

02:04

263 investigating in command.

02:06

I copy 242 in quarters.

02:12

2.5 on scene.

02:18

2.5 on scene.

02:19

The advice, we just received a request to cancel.

02:25

217 on scene.

02:27

Copy 217.

02:33

Dispatch, Fernway Command.

02:36

Friendly command.

02:41

Hey, advise, this is a malfunctioning alarm.

02:45

Systems Reset, you can return all other companies.

Police codes explained

The following codes appeared in the transcript and are explained below:

[1]

Fire Alarm: Activation of a fire alarm system requiring investigation/reset

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Near Fernway Rd, Shaker Heights, OH 44120

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