‘Tamron Hall’ set evacuated, show scrapped after grease fire at ABC Studios

Malia Mendez April 11, 2024

The sets of ABCs Tamron Hall and The View were evacuated Wednesday morning after a grease fire broke out in the former programs on-set kitchen.

A spokesperson for the New York City Fire Department said

that

the cause of the fire was burned food

found on a stove

, Entertainment Weekly reported. Units arrived at the scene around 8:40 a.m. local time, and no injuries were reported.

Due to the evacuation, Tamron Hall scratched its scheduled program for the day, instead airing a rerun of its Monday Eclipse episode during its 10 a.m. slot.

At the top of the hour, Hall addressed the incident in a brief opening monologue.

We have had something happen thats never happened in the five seasons of the show. We are not able to air the show scheduled for today, the Emmy Award-winning host said. As my friend Bevy Smith says, Sometimes life be lifeing, and that happened for us today.

Now, were in the clean-up phase, she said, adding that the shows planned week of fashion- and hairstyle-related programming would resume the next day.

In her monologue, Hall thanked the responding firefighters

andas well as

audience members, who were in a holding room at the time of the incident, assuring the TV audience

, that

everybodys OK.

She also revealed to viewers how

she hadshed

planned to start the Wednesday broadcast

with

thea

viral video clip of Lenny Kravitzs intensive ab workout.

Instead, Hall said, We had, you might say, a

real

smoke show around here.

An hour later, the women of The View”

which films next door to “Tamron Hall” at ABC Studios in Manhattan

walked onto their set to Billy Joels We Didnt Start the Fire

,

in a cheeky nod to the incident.

This morning we had to evacuate the studio because there was a fire that we did not start, host Whoopi Goldberg said on the show. We dont know who started it. We dont know what started it.

Host

Ana Navarro

, who had called into the teams regular Hot Topics meeting from the airport mid-commute, said, I pressed the Zoom link, thinking I would find all of you on the Zoom, and it was dark, empty, an alarm, and flashing lights.”

I thought, Holy hell,'” she said.