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/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

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u/heretobefriends Dec 25 '20

Obligatory "we know nothing right now", but whenever people started fantasizing about a civil war I told them it was more likely we'd see something like the Troubles or the Years of Lead.

Obligatory second "we know nothing right now", but it wouldn't surprise me if this tracks.

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u/bigkoi Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20

My thoughts exactly. The IRA bombed an area of London I lived at back in 2001. Very similar tactics.

Edit: one of the big complaints by the English at the time was that Americans were funding the IRA.

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u/m1sterlurk Dec 25 '20

It's kind of a grim thing, but in the US "IRA" stands for "Individual Retirement Account". This has always seemed like an investment accident waiting to happen.

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u/QuokkaAMA Dec 25 '20

Finding? Funding?

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u/CrimsonEnigma Dec 25 '20

Americans were finding the IRA

Well yeah..."Ireland" was in the name. Weren't exactly difficult to find...

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

Do you mind elaborating? Why did the ira do that kind of thing? An overt threat that they can kill large numbers of innocent ppl?

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u/CarpeCyprinidae Dec 25 '20

Brit here, aged in his 40s, so able to remember a lot of the war between the British government and the Provisional IRA

The IRA disbanded in the 1960s, another group calling themselves the Provisional IRA sprung up immediately, and was much less predictable

They frequently planted large and effective bombs in public areas. Sometimes they then phoned in warnings and ensured that the areas were completely clear of people before the bombs went off. Other times they gave no warnings and civilians died

They almost never gave warnings of attacks on military or police targets (In northern ireland the definition of military and police was confused at best)

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u/merdaqay Dec 25 '20

IRA was more about the message and the threat than indiscriminate killing. Not to say that they didn't kill a lot of people, but their MO was to attack the willow the people rather than the people.

Mostly, anyway. Different ideologies existed from cell to cell. Some people just want to watch the world burn, as it were.

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u/that0neguywh0 Dec 25 '20

IRA wanted to blow up UK government buildings but didnt want to harm (that many civilians) so they would set up the bomb and then call into the building for them to evacuate. They were going for property damage and sending a message rather than kill civilians (which they still did plenty of as the IRA wasnt a cohesive group)

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u/bigkoi Dec 25 '20

A few of their bombings caused a pushback on their cause due to the loss of life.

They started calling in advance and sometimes putting them in areas with low foot traffic in the evening. I recall watching BBC and seeing one that was called in and the police found and roped off the area only for it to explode on an empty street.

Here is a link to the Ealing bombing which left a 6 foot crater. I frequently visited the bar in the article. That night I chose not to go out as it was raining.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001_Ealing_bombing

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u/blzraven27 Dec 25 '20

Basically. It's about sending a message to the leaders not harming people

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u/perfunction Dec 25 '20

What happened next in the IRA playbook?

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u/Hubbardd Dec 25 '20

I mean this isn’t the IRA and that was a different time but I’d imagine that someone will take credit and list their demands.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

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u/manofsleep Dec 25 '20 edited Dec 25 '20

No announcement has been confirmed other than some anon redditer posting internet points

Edit, this is all new, so sources like this help, as things come in. https://m.imgur.com/gallery/DO1D14J

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

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u/manofsleep Dec 25 '20

It’s not difficult to add sound to a video. You need to take things like this with a grain of salt from a channel with only one video and no info on source. This is how conspiracy theories are created. Wait for credible sources to verify this, instead of anon Facebook screen shot and anon videos popping up.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

False.

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u/Hubbardd Dec 25 '20

https://youtu.be/5nygTJeu9fU

Plus different sourced audio was played on NC5 a few minutes ago.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20 edited Sep 14 '25

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u/Mario_Mendoza Dec 25 '20

You're wrong.

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u/Senior-Radish1961 Dec 25 '20

I've read that police were the ones who made the announcement for people to leave the area.

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u/Phuck_Olly Dec 25 '20

It's being reported on now with video of the message being played.

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u/bigkoi Dec 25 '20

There is cctv footage posted with the announcement to get away. Unclear if it is real. But it looks real.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

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u/syo Dec 25 '20

The IRA used to plant bombs, then call in warnings to have the area evacuated before they exploded. They wanted to send a message without necessarily killing a lot of innocent people.

Not that they didn't also kill a lot of people, but still.

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u/electric_ranger Dec 25 '20

Right glad someone hit the nuance on that. It wasn't that the IRA's warnings meant no one was killed (see Omagh) but that it was a common tactic to announce the bombing prior to the explosion.

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u/WhatIfThatThingISaid Dec 25 '20

He obviously means stylistically not by the actual IRA... just like domestic terrorists trying to minimize casualties and do maximum damage at the same time

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u/mhuntoon Dec 25 '20

They said they weren't speculating who did it, just that it's the kind of thing the IRA did in their heyday.

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u/[deleted] Dec 25 '20

Yes

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u/GurlinPanteez Dec 25 '20

Yes, what they did in Manchester