Government say an explosion in a manhole at Texas Tech College prompt fires and tool outages at the campus, main college officers to factor evacuation orders for a number of structures and cancel categories for the remainder of the week
LUBBOCK, Texas — An explosion at the Texas Tech College campus in Lubbock prompt fires and tool outages Wednesday, main college officers to factor evacuation orders for a number of structures and cancel categories for the remainder of the week.
An alert despatched to the campus group round 8:45 p.m. described the explosion as going on at a substation however a later replace mentioned it used to be at a manhole. No accidents have been reported, Lubbock Fireplace Rescue Capt. Jon Tunnell mentioned.
Movies circulating on social media and native TV stations confirmed a heavy presence of firefighters on campus and hearth and smoke popping out of a minimum of one manhole quilt.
It wasn’t transparent what would possibly have led to the explosion.
Energy might be close right down to all of the campus in Lubbock, Texas, whilst maintenance are underway, mentioned Caitlynn Jeffries, a spokesperson for the college’s police division.
“You’ll move forward and move house for Spring ruin. We’re last college down for the following couple days,” Jeffries mentioned.
The college additionally recommended college and workforce to paintings remotely if imaginable till additional understand.
Lubbock Fireplace Rescue answered to a imaginable fuel leak round 7 p.m. native time and located “more than one manhole covers with smoke and hearth issuing from them,” Tunnell mentioned.
“This stays an overly lively scene as crews proceed to lend a hand Texas Tech College in mitigating this emergency,” he mentioned.
There are greater than 40,000 scholars at Texas Tech and the varsity sits on 1,800 acres in West Texas.
