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The Dark Knight set catches fire...

Stax of IGN:

...The vacant Post Office building being used by the Dark Knight production caught fire Tuesday morning, halting filming until fire fighters could put out the blaze.

The building has been redressed as the Gotham National Bank for a heist scene involving The Joker's gang and a school bus that has crashed into the building.

"District Fire Chief Jose Santiago said insulation inside the building's 'very old ventilation system' caught fire shortly before 11:30 a.m., and had nothing to do with the filming. There were no injuries," reports the Associated Press.

"The fire was contained to the 16th-floor ventilation shaft in the 17-story building."

According to ChicagoTribune.com, "Witnesses said the Batman crew was filming a scene involving a fleet of school buses on Canal [Street] when the fire broke out. Outside the post office building, a fake wall had been set up with a replica bus crashing through it."

The AP said filming resumed two hours after fire fighters arrived on the scene.

What luck. It feels like it's taken forever and day for this film to get rolling before the cameras-and what happens fire breaks out almost out of the gate. I'm glad the delay was short-lived and that nobody was hurt.