ABC News Breakfast was forced to abrupt cut off mid-program on Friday morning as staff were forced to evacuate its Melbourne studios.
Co-hosts Michael Rowland and Bridget Brennan were wrapping up an interview when they were ordered to flee the studio while live on air.
‘We have to go, there’s a fire emergency,’ a crew member off-camera was heard telling the pair.
Rowland began explaining to viewers before the broadcast suddenly cut off.
‘Now we’re dealing with a few things here,’ Rowland explained before programming switched to an ad.
Rowland later took to X to explain what happened.
‘So, we had to evacuate the studio in the final half hour of News Breakfast because of a fire alarm in the ABC Melbourne building. Everyone is safe and the emergency is over,’ he wrote.
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