Call the guests down. Get everyone out. Officer helps hotel evacuate before Nashville bombing
Survivors of the Christmas Day bombing describe the moment officers alerted them to the danger.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â Minutes before the explosion on Christmas morning, a police officer went to the 21c Museum Hotel to tell them to evacuate. I walked out to the front desk and he was standing there, and he looked a little more nervous than usual, said Tanner Newcomb, a front desk employee. That s whenever I was like something is probably not good. Something is wrong.
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Officer James Wells recounts the events of the Christmas morning bombing in Nashville, Tennessee, on December 25, 2020.
Nashville police officer James Wells is being hailed as a hero for helping to evacuate people from downtown Nashville moments before a suicidal man detonated a bomb in an RV. Now the officer says God was speaking directly to him and that is what helped save his own life in the process.
Wells sprung into action after arriving on the scene of the suspicious vehicle on Christmas Day. The vehicle was being treated as a possible bomb situation.
In a press conference on Sunday, Wells said he heard the call of Officer Tyler Luellen saying that he needed everyone at the scene on Second Avenue immediately.
They are heroes : 6 Nashville police officers evacuated residents moments before RV exploded Share Updated: 5:14 PM EST Dec 27, 2020 By Travis Caldwell, Eric Levenson and Artemis Moshtaghian, CNN They are heroes : 6 Nashville police officers evacuated residents moments before RV exploded Share Updated: 5:14 PM EST Dec 27, 2020
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Show Transcript they didn t think about protecting themselves. They thought about the citizens of Nashville and protecting them. The initial 911 call was for shots fired but responding. Officers quickly realized the threat was an RV park nearby playing a recorded warning. You conserve this message, Theo. Officers quickly sealed off the area and evacuated nearby residential buildings between myself and all the other officers knocking on doors. I think we made contact with six or seven families. Um, inform them. The native exit the building. But outside on the street, authorities say, the loudspeaker o