Fireworks mistaken for gunshots near Mayfield Rd, Mayfield Heights OH


Multiple callers near Mayfield Rd reported hearing 8 to 9 sounds like gunshots. After investigation, residents confirmed the noises were from a professional fireworks display to the south. No gunshots were found.
Audio|Source: Hillcrest Police Departments Dispatch
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Transcript:
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Mayfield Heights unit.
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We're doing a call of 8 to 9 gunshots outside near Marsall across the parking lot.
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26, 46, 40,000, 2 copy.
00:15
17 copies.
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4,500 does the callers continue to hear them because there's some sort of professional fireworks display to the south of here.
00:41
4,500. They say they heard it off in our cell? We're at the main door.
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We just heard them she lives near Marsall.
00:53
She couldn't specify a direction just that she could hear them outside.
00:59
Do we just have one caller?
01:05
One from the apartment complex, several other calls.
01:09
He six is pulling in now.
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Forty sale.
01:18
One house and receiving multiple complaints on different streets of fireworks.
01:27
Copy you show me in the area.
01:30
Copy. Copy.
01:36
Yeah, it's just over and cheat some sort of professional display to the south.
01:46
And Peter, there's that one vehicle running, right here, a path on you right there.
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17's out.
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Have any problems.
02:11
I spoke with a resident at the dog park in the complex here.
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He's been out here 15 minutes.
02:15
He said it was fireworks going off in the distance, no gunshots reported.
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Thanks.
02:22
6,4,500.
02:25
Go ahead.
02:29
Asked with another male sitting in the car with the female.
02:32
They said it was fireworks 2.
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They didn't hear any gunshots.
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Copy.
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