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An electric fire on Sunday morning in a building housing the offices of several news outlets in Northwest DC forced mobile networks to move temporarily and another to stop their live broadcast.
WASHINGTON – A Sunday morning electric fire on a building housing The offices of several Northwest DC news networks forced the networks to move temporarily and another to end their live broadcast.
An electric fire – from the 8th floor @MSNBC Forcing studios @cspan to end live @cspanwj pic.twitter.com/Ou5mveQSha [19659005] – Steve Scully (@SteveScully) January 20, 2019
DC Fire and EMS reacted to an alarm box located on the 8th floor of a North Capitol Street Northwest Block 400 office building. Sunday 8:30 The building houses NBC News, FOX News, C-SPAN and MSNBC.
No injuries were reported, but smoke and water damaged NBC facilities. The sprinklers were turned on and the fire was extinguished in about 20 minutes, according to DC Fire tweets.
C-SPAN's operations were interrupted but have since returned to normal and a Fox News spokesperson told WTOP that all employees were
FOXNews Sunday "and" Mediabuzz "were transferred to WTTG, DC's local Fox station, Chris Wallace, was present at the beginning of "FOX News Sunday."
"It was a big effort to rush to get there. done within two hours and moving an entire operation to the station for the show to air, "said FOX spokesperson.
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