Weather Channel viewers watching the cable network’s coverage of fire weather impacting southern California thought they saw something gruesome in a live broadcast on Wednesday; since then, the Weather Channel has responded to the chatter about a fire victim’s charred remains being visible during a live shot.
During Wednesday’s coverage of the ongoing fires in the Los Angeles metro area, concerned viewers took to X to describe what they saw.
“Concerned Citizen” who uses @BGatesIsaPsycho handle wrote, “Tell me that’s not a skull, that’s a skull – you can see the leg bones coming out….American Weather Channel inadvertently captures dead body whilst reporting on the LA fires. Beyond horrific.”
“Texas Patriot” who uses @Texasbrn handle wrote, “Weather Channel is accused of airing footage of dead body body in LA.”
To extinguish the firestorm of controversy, Allen Media Group, which owns the Weather Channel, sent other photographs they took from the area of the live shot to show the area in concern is merely debris from the fire. The Weather Channel told the media that it confirmed it did not share footage of human remains in the aftermath of the fire.
The fires continue to burn out of control with the Palisades Fire now moving east towards Brentwood, West LA, and Encino.
