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Martin Place building evacuated

Updated: See how the cast from The Morning Show and Sunrise coped with the evacuation from Seven's Martin Place this morning.

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mpThe Daily Telegraph reports that Seven’s Martin Place headquarters in Sydney was evacuated  this morning during the broadcasting of Remembrance Day services.

Thick smoke could be seen pouring from the top of the building. Fire crews were in attendance.

A skeleton staff continued to broadcast from the building while 200 people were evacuated.

The building is home to Sunrise, The Morning Show, Seven News and Today Tonight.

The fire is understood to be electrical based.

TV Tonight understands as of 12:40pm fire crews have now allowed staff to return to the building. More to come…

3:25pm. The fire is reported to have been nothing serious. A few people felt a bit sick from the fumes and the incident has thrown deadlines out…

Source: news.com.au

Photo: file pic.

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  2. I hated how they acted outside the studios.

    … and it was reported but only the facts in a story lasting less than a minute on the evening news here in QLD.

    Now waiting to see what Sunrise will bring…

  3. So those saying this isn’t worthy news, who is that directed at? David or Seven, because it had to be reported one way or the other. Obviously one of the most well-known television studios with a mass evacuation, thats TV News, and belongs on a TV blog site. The Morning show & 7 News still had to broadcast, and what they’re just gonna ignore the fact that they’ve been forced to broadcast outside, it had to be mentioned. Though I agree they’re going on about it (Sunrise/Morning Show crew) like a bunch of school kids, like how we used to do at school fire drills!

  4. I watched the morning news with Ann Saunders,and with everything going on around her she remained a true professional as always,great work done by the lady with class.

  6. @ homer, obviously there is always going to be different opinions about what should be classed as news, lets just agree to disagree. i think we could both agree though that the morning show team where acting like a bunch of school children lol 🙂

  7. @mac People posted comments because David blogged about it. David blogged about it because this is a television blog site, not a news site. David isn’t blogging about the Oceanic Viking because that is a news story and not a television show. I am pleased you can concede that if this wasn’t at Seven’s studios it would have received less attention. My contention is that it would have received *no* attention, and deservedly so.

  8. @homer obviously if this wasn’t at the seven studios it would have got a lot less attention and i do believe they went a bit over board but there is genuine interest in this story, which is why david has blogged about it and people have posted comments.

  13. @mac You obviously don’t work in a city building, because this sort of thing happens all the time. Our building fire alarm goes off, falsely, about three times every year resulting in a complete evacuation of the building. I’ve never seen news coverage of a small fire in an office building where no-one was injured and there was almost no damage. I suppose you think it is newsworthy because there are pictures to go with it? That’s the very thing I was lamenting – that news editors decide on the basis of images or celebrity involvement that something is news. If this happened and Seven wasn’t in the building would it still be news? Should it be news just because Seven is there? No and no.

  16. although it was a small fire, it is still news because of the resulting large scale evacuation and disruption it caused. in saying that though the morning show did an awful job covering it, they sound like a bunch of school children i couldn’t even hear what they where saying because they were all talking over each other, ann sanders was a lot more professional and did a great job.

  17. @JM Spot on. This isn’t news. The other networks shouldn’t mention it and even Seven should only cover it as a colour piece at the end of the bulletin. Having said that, when that pigeon flew in font of the live camera shot for Nine News in Melbourne that got a silly run in a few bulletins…even though it was even less newsey then this. It all speaks volumes about the sorry state of Australian commercial television news.

  18. Why would the News & TT rate better? Its not exactly big news… not like the building burnt down… it was a small electrical fire in the air conditioning.
    I doubt the other networks will even mention it

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