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ON
TV
Five million saw the
Chicago fire no one was ready
for but which everyone
was prepared to cover
By HELEN C. BOLSTAD,
Chicago Editor, RADIO TELEVISION MIRROR
Flames, leaping high as a fifteen story building, roared a challenge that everyone accepted.
WNBQ was closest. Just one office building separated them from the blaze, and employees, returning from lunch, had pitched in to help pull fatally injured firemen from the debris of the first explosion, then rushed up to the nineteenth floor of the Merchandise Mart to help get the telecast on the air.
For no one questioned there would be a telecast. As soon as they saw the size of the conflagration, Howard Luttgens, the chief engineer and Paul Moore, TV engineering supervisor, snatched a camera and operator out of a Quiz Kids' rehearsal, and within half an hour were ready to go on the air from the nineteenth floor roof.
Their location, almost directly above the blaze, gave them an ideal perspective. Too ideal, in fact, everyone conceded when, during their second break into the network, an explosion occurred, showering burning embers all around them. Harried newsmen trying to assemble information had to jump from typewriters and telephones, grab fire extinguishers, and put out blazes. For once even Clifton Utley, one of the most suave of newsmen, was ruffled.
At ABC, there was a different problem. Engineering was easy. All they had to do was dolly cameras jp to windows of their studios in Doth the Civic Opera and the Daily Tews buildings. Their trouble was to supply a commentary, for the station was (Continued on page 23)
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