'The Dark Knight Rises': Don't Mind Our Gunfire

Sometimes the line between movies imitating real life can be very blurred. 

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Pittsburgh is currently doubling as Gotham City while the latest Batman installment, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises, is filming. 

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And, while most of the time a town's citizens are not disturbed by much more than street closures, the particularly action-packed film has been having another effect on the Pennsylvania town. 

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911 operators have been told to expect a rise in calls related to gun shots and explosions over the next few weeks as Christian Bale and co. film some of the movie's fight scenes. 

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Emergency Management deputy director Raymond DeMichiei told local news station Channel 4 Action News that while citizens should be aware of the movie's agenda, they also shouldn't assume gunfire is fake. 

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"If you hear shots fired or a disturbance or gunfire, and you feel it's possibly a real event, don't automatically assume that it isn't," said DeMichiei. "Call 911 and report it and we'll figure it out."

Maybe Batman himself will come to the rescue.