Chaos as The Project pulled from air to evacuate
Channel 10's The Project was suddenly pulled from air after a fire alarm sounded, forcing presenters and crew to evacuate the building, just before 7pm on Wednesday night.
The show was replaced with an episode of Dog House, and at 6:50pm the show's X account notified viewers of the matter, saying: “We are being evacuated… we think we will back soon?”.
A few minutes later they shared a follow up post: “Due to a fire alarm in the studio, The Project has had to evacuate the building.”
“You can see what’s happening Facebook and Instagram Live ... or watch an episode of the Dog House,” it read.
The Project later posted a video of the hosts going outside as they joked and made light of the situation.
“Guys, we get it you are so obsessed with us and were wondering where we went as the Dog House came on,” the caption read.
“And to be honest we couldn’t tell you either as the fire alarm was going off and we just followed our boss.”
The show returned on-air at 7:09pm, with host Waleed Aly saying: “What’s that, where did we go? Oh nowhere, we didn’t even know."
“We all needed to go to the bathroom, at once.
“No, there was a fire alert in our building and we had to leave.”
Sarah Harris cut in jokingly saying they didn't only have to leave but had to "run".
A Fire and Rescue Victorian spokesperson said that they had responded to a false alarm after a smoke detector malfunctioned.
Images: Instagram/ The Project