Texas Tech University Closes

Update: Texas Tech closes campus ahead of spring break after fires, explosion
Texas Tech and Lubbock Fire Rescue officials were confirming an ongoing evacuation near the campus' engineering key as well as outages across the Tech and Texas Tech Health Sciences Center campuses following several fires and a power substation explosion Wednesday evening.
Maintenance hole explosion at Texas Tech University causes fires, outages and cancels classes
Authorities at Texas Tech University say an explosion inside a maintenance hole set off fires and power outages on the campus, leading school officials to issue evacuation orders for several buildings
Texas Tech officials trying to determine what caused explosion and fires that prompted campus closure
A day after the incident in which green flames could be seen coming out of manholes, 40% of the university in Lubbock remains without power.
Video shows green flames erupt following underground explosion on Texas Tech campus
Watch the video of green flames coming up through a manhole cover following an underground explosion at Texas Tech.
Green flames erupt from the ground at Texas Tech due to explosion
Texas Tech University sent students on an early spring break after spurts of green flames shot out from manholes on campus on Wednesday night. The source was an explosion at a substation that caused widespread outages across campus and the university's Health Sciences Center.
Texas Tech closed after explosion on campus causes green flames to shoot from manholes
Texas Tech University in Lubbock is closed Thursday and Friday and students are advised to start Spring Break early after an explosion on campus and widespread power outages Wednesday night. "Texas Tech University will be closed on Thursday,
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Texas Tech students describe evacuation of campus
LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD ... from his dorm room. “To grab all my stuff pretty much spend the night at a friend’s place,” Williams said. In the 10 p.m. hour, Tech announced students who live ...
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Explosion at Texas Tech causes fire and smoke to billow out of manholes on campus
Because when I had left my dorm, there was a big thing of smog,” Gianna Bass, a Texas Tech student ... allowed back into their residence halls Wednesday night, however, campus police advised ...
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Emergency housing resources available to students
Spring break bus services are being arranged at an earlier time following the impromptu evacuation of Texas Tech on Wednesday ...
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No injuries reported in explosion on Texas Tech campus, Spring Break to begin immediately
Texas Tech says students are welcome back inside residence halls. Everyone is asked to avoid the Engineering ... Texas Tech University (@TexasTech) March 13, 2025 Not all dorms are ...
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Texas Tech student leaders oppose student housing project, ask city council to reconsider
After a long and hotly contested rezoning debate, the individuals being cited as the reason why a nearly 600-bed student ...