By George Hunter, MediaNews Group

When the roof of the Grand Blanc Township Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints started to buckle Sunday morning after it was set on fire by a gunman, dispatchers ordered the firefighters who’d gone into the facility to look for survivors to exit.

“All units pull out; roof is collapsing,” a dispatcher ordered about an hour after firefighters from several departments had responded to the five-alarm fire, according to audio from the Genesee County 911 dispatch of the Sunday emergency that captured the chaos and courage on display.

“My crew is out,” a firefighter responded. “We heard voices just before the collapse. We couldn’t get to them. Can we go back and get them?”

Within minutes, the crews received the thumbs-up to go back into the burning chu

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