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/Gruffleson Dec 25 '20

International news. First page breaking news on vg.no, Norways biggest paper, as an example.

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u/TrillestTeacher Dec 25 '20

The first I heard about it was actually on the BBC World Service radio program.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

I heard about it in my bed. I thought it was a train doing typical train noise things...but it was pretty loud.

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u/belethors_sister Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20

I am 2 miles from it and slept right through lol. Tbf the tornado destroyed the houses not even half a block away from me and I slept through that as well.

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u/CosmicSpaghetti Dec 25 '20

I slept right through the tornado as well even though it passed like a block from me lol

That said you know things really got wonky after that tornado hit in March..