Nashville, Tenn.–AT&T issued a statement this morning regarding the outages caused by the explosion in Nashville on Christmas morning. AT&T officials said challenges remain, which include a fire which reignited overnight and led to the evacuation of the building while workers were attempted to restore power to equipment.
The explosion and resulting outages have affected service not only to the Nashville area but beyond, including our area.
This is the statement from AT&T, issued at 8:30 a.m. this morning (Saturday, December 26):
Our teams continue to work around the clock on recovery efforts from yesterday morning’s explosion in Nashville. We have two portable cell sites operating in downtown Nashville with numerous additional portable sites being deployed in the Nashville area and in the region.
At our facility, the focus of the restoration continues to be getting power to the equipment in a safe and secure way. Challenges remain, including a fire which reignited overnight and led to the evacuation of the building. Currently, our teams are on site working with safety and structural engineers. They have drilled access holes into the building and are attempting to reconnect power to critical equipment. Technical teams are also working as quickly as possible on rerouting additional services to other facilities in the region to restore service.
We continue to be grateful for the work of first responders as they respond to this event and help protect our team working to restore service for our customers.
We’ll provide additional updates here as our recovery progresses.