During Operation Iraqi Freedom, he served as an embedded journalist with the Navy SEALs and provided numerous first reports for the network, including a report that the U.S. had captured two main offshore oil terminals located 22 miles (35 km) off Iraq's southern coast, preventing them from being blown up by Iraqi forces.
[1] Previous to Fox, Centanni had worked for KRON-TV in San Francisco, California.
[2] Centanni attended the University of Colorado at Boulder and earned a Bachelor's degree in broadcasting from San Francisco State University.
[1] On August 14, 2006, he was kidnapped by Palestinian gunmen while on assignment in Gaza City, along with Olaf Wiig, a cameraman from New Zealand, with a group calling itself the Holy Jihad Brigades claiming responsibility.
[3][4] On August 27, the Palestinian news service Ramattan and FOX News reported that Centanni and Wiig were released unharmed.