There is nothing more serious and more framed than a news channel. Topic launches happen to the nearest second and there is no room for the unexpected. However, a totally unexpected thing happened during the broadcast The morning news.
Monday October 24, 2022, while Marc Fauvelle presented his program and spoke of a subject that could not be more serious since it was a question of the murder of little Lola and the “temptation of hasty justice“, the fire alarm went off.”That we had never had the fire alert live”, launched the presenter. Her colleague, clearly surprised and a little lost, then launched: “I do not know what to do.“
Not giving in to panic – which is in any case recommended in the event of a fire – Marc Fauvelle then retorted, very professionally: “Nothing. I’ll maybe try to run the info thread, it happens to be two floors above maybe we’ll escape the fire alarm.”
Music was then broadcast and, ten minutes later (!), the journalists went back on the air, finally giving explanations. “9:28 a.m. on franceinfo. It’s not every day that we hear Serge Gainsbourg at this hour for a very simple reason, if you were with us a few minutes ago we were victims, in quotes, of a fire alarm which s is triggered during The informed. This is the very first time this has happened. So we left studio 121 and went outside like all Radio France employees, downstairs, in the open air, to go back up. Hence my slight shortness of breath with the 4 floors to climb on foot since the elevators do not work. All this to give you the microphone in good conditions, which I’m trying to do somehow this morning“, said Marc Fauvelle before handing over to his colleague Camille Revel.
If the alarm that went off was not synonymous with fire, in 2014, real flames had ravaged Radio France. A fire broke out on the 8th floor of Radio France, in an area undergoing asbestos removal. The programs were then disrupted for nearly three hours. France Inter, France Info, France Musique and France Culture had all ended up resuming around 4 p.m.