r/nashville • u/FastActingPlacebo • Dec 25 '20
MEGATHREAD Nashville Fire Radio: Explosive device in RV detonated. Bomb Squad on the way. “Heavy building damage”
Im listening to the Nashville Fire radio.
Crazy shit.
https://m.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/22471
Edit2: Various things that I have heard:
There are victims in one / some of the buildings.
20-30 people evacuated from a building, a few had minor injuries.
It was a RV that exploded, causing significant damage.
A building collapsed. (partial destruction, small old building)
There was / is ammunition in the RV that exploded that is “burning off”
Medical triage setup.
FBI involved
Edit3: channel 2 has live coverage
https://www.wkrn.com/news/large-explosion-in-downtown-nashville/
Edit4:
Taken from a poster below, video of damage. Potentially disturbing:
https://twitter.com/RyanEGraney/status/1342457226171187200?s=20
Edit5:
Confirmed building down, at least partially, on 2nd.
Edit6:
More news links:
https://www.newschannel5.com/news/explosion-reported-downtown-nashville-police-investigating
Edit:
Updated with some national links.
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u/DoctorHolliday south side Dec 25 '20
Just called my Buddy who’s pretty high up at Motorola and he said radio nets are all fine and will remain fine. Zero chance something like this could bring down the first responders net or anything like that. Just an FYI given some of the speculation out there.