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Electrical fire knocks KXAS-TV off the air
11/20/2009
An electrical fire forced evacuation of KXAS during a newscast and knocked the state's longest-serving TV station off the air.
Fort Worth Fire Department spokesman Tim Hardeman said Friday that no one was injured in the blaze reported at 10:09 p.m. Thursday.
Hardeman says dry chemicals were used to put out the fire in an electrical vault. Hardeman says the damage estimate was $405,000.
KXAS vice president of programming Brian Hocker says the fire at the NBC network-owned station also forced its Telemundo affiliate, KXTX, off the air.
Hocker says about 50 people were in the building when the fire alarm sounded. The stations were back on the air by 2 a.m. Friday.
KXAS was the first television station in Texas, as WBAP, in 1948. The building is listed with the Texas Historical Commission.
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