When Nashville Bombing Hit a Telecom Hub, the Ripples Reached Far Beyond
Investigators are questioning whether the perpetrator specifically targeted the building. The explosion disrupted 911 call centers, hospitals and cell service in several states.
A bombing in Nashville on Friday disrupted telecommunications across the region.Credit...Andrew Nelles/Tennessean.com, via Reuters
Dec. 29, 2020
NASHVILLE — On Christmas morning, emergency officials in the small Alabama town of Cullman found themselves nearly cut off from the outside world.
Their 911 dispatch center was failing, and a backup system was only partly functioning. Veteran officers were having to teach younger colleagues how to use two-way radios to communicate with each other because their cellphones were not receiving a signal.