On Tuesday afternoon, KARE 11 evacuated employees from its Golden Valley studio after a transformer caught fire, the station shared in a social media report.
Anchor Jana Shortal provided an update from the station’s parking lot. “There’s been a fire. There’s been explosions here,” Shortal says in a video posted to X and Instagram. “We are all okay. Most important part, nobody was hurt here.”
The station’s power went out around 1:30. As staff exited, they found explosions taking place at the back of the building near the station’s satellite. Shortal says that the “early indication” is that the explosions were coming from a transformer…