Regardless of being some of the profitable and highest-paid anchors at Fox Information, Invoice Hemmer isn’t any stranger to tragedy. Like a lot of his colleagues, he suffered a private loss following the dying of his father, William R. Hemmer, in 2025 of their native metropolis of Cincinnati. He was 85 years outdated. Invoice has typically spoken about his father’s affect all through his life throughout interviews. Talking of his dad and mom, he informed Enterprise Insider in 2020, “They allowed us to step on our personal pile, to determine the right way to clear it up on our personal.” He confirmed the household loss by a touching tribute he shared on Instagram, writing, “I liked this man and each single second I had with him.” A retired gross sales govt for a mattress firm, William left behind his spouse of 63 years, together with 5 kids and several other grandchildren.

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However the dying of his father is not the one tragedy Invoice has needed to endure. Having labored at Fox since 2005, the veteran newscaster has lined dozens of main information tales, a lot of which have caught with him lengthy after the cameras stopped rolling. Some had been extra traumatic than others. “I might discover myself closing my eyes at nighttime on the finish of one other lengthy day, and the photographs, as searing as they had been, would come flooding again into [my] mind,” he shared throughout a chat with Mediabistro. Invoice, who’s among the many least shady Fox Information anchors, needed to pull himself out of that headspace earlier than his ideas took over and threatened to devour him. “These are darkish locations. They’d actually get beneath your pores and skin.” However of all of the tragedies he witnessed throughout these assignments, there’s one he might by no means fairly neglect.

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For Invoice Hemmer, it was the catastrophic earthquake in Haiti that ravaged the nation and left 1000’s of individuals lifeless that hit him the toughest. “It was the one story that haunted me probably the most. And often, I can shake it off after 48 hours,” he informed Mediabistro in 2012. “Truthfully, it wasn’t the lifeless that you just needed to cope with. … It was the dwelling that haunts you.”

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Reporting dwell on the aftermath of the earthquake, he witnessed firsthand how dozens of locals scrambled to hunt medical assist amid all of the chaos and destruction. One lady who sustained accidents needed to be sewn up with out some type of anesthetic as a result of lack of obligatory provides there. “That mosaic of human drama, I feel, is one thing that performed again in my thoughts,” mentioned Hemmer. “And, in all probability, performed again within the minds of everyone else.”

Although the information anchor could also be on the prime of his recreation right this moment, there was a time limit when he virtually thought-about dropping out after experiencing a mid-life disaster. He was 26 when he give up his job as an area reporter to expertise life past the newsroom and uncover the remainder of the world. Throughout certainly one of his escapades, Hemmer had a daunting encounter with a pack of stray canine within the West Bengal metropolis of Kolkata, India. He additionally traveled by nations like China, Egypt, Vietnam, and Russia. “I felt the partitions in my world had been going to collapse round me if I did not get this factor finished,” he informed Enterprise Insider. “The one factor I believed for positive was that I couldn’t afford to show the age of 30 with out seeing what was on the market.”

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