Good morning, everyone, and welcome to police off the cuff, real crime stories.

I'm your host, retired NYPD, Sergeant Bill Cannon, a 27-year veteran of the NYPD.

Still the human tragedy of the blast in Tennessee at the accurate energetic system.

If there was any light at the end of the tunnel

or to find something positive in this tragedy,

is that initially the reports were that there were 19 people missing.

And since the initial blasts at 0.7.45 hours on Friday, that's been reduced by three people.

Based on the searches and the notifications and interactions with family members,

law enforcement has been able to determine that there are, in fact,

16 people missing, 16 workers of accurate energetic systems.

It's still not great news, but it is three less people from the initial blast, and now it's been lowered from 18 to 16, so two less people.

But this is a very close-knit community.

People are really suffering over this tragedy.

You can imagine that many people in this community depended on this way to make a living accurate

energetic systems which manufactured explosives, whether for demolition or for military purposes.

And I would imagine

and not being versed in bomb squad work or that type of thing.

I don't know a lot about explosives.

There must be a huge amount of precautions taken

when you work in a facility like this.

There must be a huge list, a huge checklist of

things that will keep you safe, a checklist of safety regulations. Despite all of that,

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