{"id":11240,"date":"2014-10-31T10:46:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-31T14:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11240"},"modified":"2014-10-31T10:57:46","modified_gmt":"2014-10-31T14:57:46","slug":"fire-at-radio-france-building-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/fire-at-radio-france-building-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire at Radio France building in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, <a title=\"via Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/K7al_L3afta\" target=\"_blank\">@K7al_L3afta<\/a>, for sharing news that the top floors of the Radio France broadcasting house were on fire this morning:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SWLingDotCom\">@SWLingDotCom<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LondonShortwave\">@LondonShortwave<\/a> fire in Radio France!! <a href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/EWoIWsyLEq\">pic.twitter.com\/EWoIWsyLEq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ????? ????????? (@K7al_L3afta) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/K7al_L3afta\/status\/528150922250039296\">October 31, 2014<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>You can read more about the fire, in English, <a title=\"Reuters\" href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/10\/31\/france-fire-idINKBN0IK1A520141031\" target=\"_blank\">via Reuters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A fire broke out at France&#8217;s public radio headquarters in Paris on Friday, forcing live programmes off the air as staff evacuated the vast Paris complex where major building work has been underway.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fire is not put out but it is under control,&#8221; said Paris fire brigade spokesman Gabriel Plus, adding that there were no victims and that there was no longer any risk of the fire spreading to other parts of the building.[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/10\/31\/france-fire-idINKBN0IK1A520141031\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it seems all staff were evacuated and there have been no casualties noted at this point. Time will tell\u00a0if this has a temporary effect on Radio France International programming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/fire-at-radio-france-building-in-paris\/#comment-256363\">Jonathan Marks comments<\/a>, &#8220;Unlikely that RFI will be affected as they have moved out of the Maison de la Radio and into the same offices as France 24 a little bit further down the river.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Jonathan!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, @K7al_L3afta, for sharing news that the top floors of the Radio France broadcasting house were on fire this morning: @SWLingDotCom @LondonShortwave fire in Radio France!! pic.twitter.com\/EWoIWsyLEq \u2014 ????? ????????? (@K7al_L3afta) October 31, 2014 You can read more about the fire, in English, via Reuters: A fire broke out at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3],"tags":[3360,3359,497,453],"class_list":["post-11240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","tag-france","tag-radio-france-fire","tag-radio-france-international","tag-rfi"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2Vi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13061,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/listening-to-the-nepal-emergency-amateur-radio-nets\/","url_meta":{"origin":11240,"position":0},"title":"Listening to the Nepal Emergency Amateur Radio Nets","author":"Thomas","date":"April 27, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"My pal,\u00a0@K7al_L3afta, recently posted the following recording of the\u00a0Nepal emergency amateur radio net via Twitter: https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/k7al_l3afta\/nepal-emergency-amateur-radio-net-14205-khz He also recorded this short segment relaying that A65DR is alive and well: https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/k7al_l3afta\/paul-a65dr-is-alive-and-safe-nepal-emergency-amateur-radio-net-14205-khz @K7al_L3afta is using a PL-660 in an RFI-heavy, urban environment in Morocco. 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The article (in French) notes that as of midnight on December 31, 2015, Radio France will cease all mediumwave broadcasts permanently. 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