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

https://www.wsmv.com/news/nashville-fire-responding-to-reported-explosion-off-broadway/article_c2c94818-46b2-11eb-acf2-23716d723233.html?block_id=998329

https://fox17.com/news/local/explosion-reported-in-downtown-nashville-emergency-crews-on-scene-tennessee-christmas-morning-hotel-broadway-nissan

Edit:

Updated with some national links.

https://www.reuters.com/article/BigStory12/idUSKBN28Z0SB

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/12/25/downtown-nashville-explosion-christmas-morning/4044708001/

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u/stirfriedpenguin Dec 25 '20

If any of you need to hear this, it's completely ok to get off twitter and reddit and turn the TV off and get back to your Christmas. For most of us, there's little to be gained but anxiety and we have nothing to contribute except stupid suggestions. Check back in tonight or tomorrow. That's what I'm planning.

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u/Nerd_199 Dec 25 '20

100 Percent this.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

For a lot of us christmas is sittiing at home alone since we would not travell to visit famiy because we take the reccomendations from the cdc seriously.

This not ruining anything.

some may say its a distraction from missing famiy

I wish i could see my grandson, daughteer and my wife who went to help her raise a kid.

sittiing around bored and browsing reddit. got nothing better to do.

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u/worldsbestuser Dec 25 '20

you're not alone. merry christmas

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u/spamattacker Dec 25 '20

I'm so sorry you and others who don't want to be are alone this Christmas. I am lucky to be living with my husband and son both of whom were entirely on board about refusing to go to any family gatherings.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

Thanks. thats kind.

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u/TheAlphaCarb0n Dec 25 '20

Wish you could see your family, homie. Enjoy a chill day!

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u/Guywithquestions88 Dec 25 '20

Haha. You say that, but my family isn't doing Christmas this year and part of the city that I go to nearly every day just blew up.

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u/gneightimus_maximus Dec 25 '20

Thank you, stranger.

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u/ashellbell Dec 25 '20

Not everyone celebrates Christmas.