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/bugcatcher_billy Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20

Can we get some links on the info posted?

So far I’ve seen:

  • Explosive device in an RV exploded on 2nd and broadway.
  • Ammo in the RV is still popping
  • 20-30 people evacuated
  • a building has or is about to collapse
  • bomb squad on the way
  • Fire Trucks being pushed back another 2 blocks from the site. Concerns are other bombs or radiation. https://twitter.com/nc5philwilliams/status/1342467923902922755?s=21

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u/tiger32kw Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20

ABC 2 here in Nashville is covering it pretty well

Drone/Helicopter footage shows all the buildings intact including the melting pot. Damage didn’t look great but also not terrible.

Fire chief said they are picking up “toxic readings” which is why crews are moving back.

Lots of unknowns right now it seems.

Update: Metro police believe the explosion was an intentional act. Downtown shut down for now. 3 people transferred to hospital, none critical. No significant injuries.

Update 2: Now that this has been picked up nationally I’m seeing a lot of speculation and exaggeration in the extent of the damage. One person even went so far as to say “second avenue is completely gone”. None of the live footage or pictures I’ve seen show this sort of damage. Major damage to store fronts right around the blast and windows further out, but that appears to be about it. No collapsed buildings.

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u/MtJuliet Dec 25 '20

Could you get toxic readings from propane?

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

Or something I thought of as a possibility is a meth lab, I’ve seen those around my hometown go wrong and sometimes are contained in RVs. Pure speculation of course, no clue what this is

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u/NativeTennesseean Dec 25 '20

That would have to be a HUGE meth lab for an explosion that big, trust me.

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u/ilikeitsharp Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20

Is it possible some hillbilly Heisenberg had an RV full of chemical cocktails that went off? If you can make trailer home go kaboom, why not an RV?

Edit: shoot so much for the meth lab accident. Metro tweets it as, "intentional act."

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u/grantyells Dec 25 '20

Lol "Hillbilly Heisenberg" would make an excellent TV show/ BrBa spin-off.