Wild scenes at the ABC as News Breakfast staff are forced to evacuate and the show is taken off air

ABC News Breakfast had to abruptly stop mid-program on Friday morning as staff were forced to evacuate its Melbourne studios.

Co-hosts Michael Rowland and Bridget Brennan were wrapping up an interview when they were ordered to flee the studio while live on air.

“We have to go, there's a fire emergency,” a crew member was heard saying to the couple off camera.

Rowland began to explain to viewers before the broadcast suddenly cut off.

“Now we're dealing with a few things here,” Rowland explained before the programming switched to an ad.

Rowland later went to X to explain what had happened.

“So we had to evacuate the studio in the last half hour of News Breakfast because of a fire alarm in the ABC Melbourne building. Everyone is safe and the emergency is over,” he wrote.

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