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== [[Real Life]] ==
[[Image:Wpix-911.jpg|thumb|WPIX 11's satellite feed
* In a news report on 9/11, a reporter standing a few blocks from World Trade Center 7 was reporting that the fire department had cleared out of the building, fearing that its collapse was imminent... during this report, the building indeed collapsed, and the reporter found himself running from a cloud of smoke and debris. [[Lampshade Hanging|WE BETTER GET OUT OF THE WAY!]] According to his [https://abc7ny.com/about/newsteam/nj-burkett/ WABC TV bio], "On September 11, 2001, after the two jets struck the World Trade Center, N.J. Burkett and his photographer narrowly escaped the subsequent collapse of the South Tower."
** As the main transmitters are on the WTC, the broadcast engineers were less fortunate: Don DiFranco (WABC 7), William Steckman (WNBC 4), Steven Jacobson (WPIX 11), Gerard "Rod" Coppola (WNET 13), Robert Pattison and Isaias Rivera (WCBS 2) did not survive. (WCBS did quickly get back on-air from a backup site on the Empire State Building.)
* Anderson Cooper, reporting on Hurricane Dennis, was almost decapitated when a piece of aluminum siding suddenly broke off in the wind and flew straight at him. He managed to get out of the way.
* A weather reporter is reporting on a torrential rainstorm with lightning and thunder, the whole bit, when suddenly there's a flash and the camera dissolves to static for two seconds before cutting back to the confused anchors. The weatherlady was ''struck by lightning''. Worst of all, this is ''played for laughs'' on a comedy show about the funniest moments in television (she survived, but retired).
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