ABC News (Australia) Broadcasts From Outside After Bushfire Smoke Sets Off Alarms In Studio

TV journalists for Australia’s ABC News went outside to deliver the 7pm broadcast in the capital city of Canberra today, but it wasn’t because the weather was pleasant. Bushfires near the city set off indoor smoke alarms at the TV studio and interrupted the evening broadcast. “The smoke alarm went off about half an hour or so before our bulletin and kept ringing when we went to air at 7pm,” ABC journalist Tom Maddocks told Gizmodo via email. “It was far too loud in the studio so outside was the best option. Our bulletin runs for half an hour (7-730).”

But it’s not just in Canberra. Sydney experienced a similar thing last week when at least 80 indoor fire alarms caused offices in the central business district to evacuate—something that people are slowly learning to live with as climate change creates new headaches in the land down under.

The beginning of tonight’s ABC broadcast, which you can watch below, featured a report on the ways that smoke has forced people to cancel outdoor plans in Australia, just as summer has begun in the southern hemisphere. The report also looked at the surge in sales of inhalers and attempts to keep pets safe as the heat becomes so bad that you can literally make roasted pork in your car.

“Tonight we’re broadcasting from the front of the ABC building in Dickson, where smoke has prompted the fire alarms to go off like so many buildings across our capital. This appears to be becoming the new normal,” journalist Dan Bourchier said to open the night’s broadcast. "We woke up this morning with this thick smoke haze blanketing the city. Again, familiar landmarks obscured by the smoke,” Bourchier continued. “Authorities say there are no fires burning here and the smoke is being blown in from those blazes around the territory.”

EDIT

https://earther.gizmodo.com/australian-journalists-forced-to-broadcast-outside-afte-1840475607